Today In
History - Friday - April 29, 2011
1813 - Rubber was patented by J.F. Hummel.
1852 - The first edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus was published.
1856 - A peace treaty was signed between England and Russia.
1861 - The Maryland House of Delegates voted against seceding from
Union.
1862 - New Orleans fell to Union forces during the Civil War.
1879 - In Cleveland, OH, electric arc lights were used for the first
time.
1913 - Gideon Sundback patented an all-purpose zipper.
1918 - Germany's Western Front offensive ended in World War I.
1924 - An open revolt broke out in Santa Clara, Cuba.
1927 - Construction of the Spirit of St. Louis was completed for
Lindbergh.
1945 - The German Army in Italy surrendered unconditionally to the
Allies.
1945 - In a bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married.
Hitler designated Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor.
1945 - The Nazi death camp, Dachau, was liberated.
1946 - Twenty-eight former Japanese leaders were indicted in Tokyo as
war criminals.
1952 - IBM President Thomas J. Watson, Jr., informed his company's
stockholders that IBM was building "the most advanced, most flexible
high-speed computer in the world." The
computer was unveiled April 7, 1953, as the IBM 701 Electronic Data
Processing Machine.
1974 - U.S. President Nixon announced he was releasing edited
transcripts of secretly made White House tape recordings related to the
Watergate scandal.
1975 - The U.S. embassy in Vietnam was evacuated as North Vietnamese
forces fought their way into Saigon.
1984 - In California, the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactor went online
after a long delay due to protests.
1988 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev promised more religious freedom.
1990 - The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.
1992 - Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris
Township, NJ, home by Arthur Seale. Seale was a former Exxon security
official. Reso died while in captivity.
1992 - Rioting began after a jury decision to acquit four Los Angeles
policemen in the Rodney King beating trial. 54 people were killed in 3
days.
1997 - Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving
Ground in Maryland, was convicted of raping six female trainees. He was
sentenced to 25 years in prison
and was dishonorably discharged.
1997 - Astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev went on
the first U.S.-Russian space walk.
1998 - The U.S., Canada and Mexico end tariffs on $1 billion in NAFTA
trade.
1998 - Brazil announced a plan to protect a large area of Amazon forest.
The area was about the size of Colorado.
2003 - Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud) filed a lawsuit against Best Buy Co.
Inc., that claimed the store did not have permission to use his likeness
in a print ad.
2009 - NATO expelled two Russian diplomats from NATO headquarters in
Brussels over a spy scandal in Estonia. Russia's Foreign Ministry
criticized the expulsions.

U.S. says Gaddafi troops raping, issued Viagra: envoys
The U.S. envoy to the United Nations told the Security Council on
Thursday that troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi were
increasingly engaging in sexual violence and some had been issued the
impotency drug Viagra, diplomats said.

US and EU Discussing "Great Firewall Of Europe" To Censor Internet
Member nations of the European Union are in secret talks, which include
the United States, to implement a “Great Firewall Of Europe” which will
block and censor online content to all nations in Europe. The proposal
is very similar to the China firewall which blocks access to blogs,
social networking sites and all foreign news websites that publish
anything that contradicts official state sponsored propaganda.

Dollar Loses More Ground
The beleaguered dollar extended its broad decline after U.S. economic
data pointed to a dismal employment picture and slowing growth, bearing
out the Federal Reserve's reluctance to tighten monetary policy anytime
soon.

Gold At Record As Dollar Falls On Fed Talk
Gold prices hit record highs on Thursday and U.S. silver futures jumped,
buoyed by the dollar that languished around a 3-year low as the United
States was seen retaining its accommodative monetary policy.

And So the Billionaires Turn On Each Other
And so the cannibalism at the very top begins. According to a statement
just released by Barry Wm. Levine, attorney of David Sokol (who was
slated to be the next head of Berkshire... until Berkshire decided to
sue him that is), none other than the Octogenarian (soon possibly the
Outcast) of Omaha was in fact lying, and arguably committing 10(b) -5
fraud by not disclosing the full details of his and Sokol's involvement
in the situation in the Lubrizol proxy.

King Crabs Invade Antarctica
It's like a scene out of a sci-fi movie -- thousands, possibly millions,
of king crabs are marching through icy, deep-sea waters and up the
Antarctic slope.

New Obama Birth Certificate Is A Forgery
Our investigation of the purported Obama birth certificate released by
Hawaiian authorities today reveals the document is a shoddily contrived
hoax. Infowars.com computer specialists dismissed the document as a
fraud soon after examining it.

Central US Plans Earthquake Drill
At 10:15 a.m. CDT, they are supposed to drop to their knees, cover their
heads and necks and hold on to a sturdy object for two minutes to
practice the appropriate reaction to a quake.

The Coming Commodity Price Nightmare
The commodity price boom we've all been bellyaching about for the past
six months started not in August, when the Fed chief first started
talking about quantitative easing, but a full eight years earlier – when
Bernanke was but a Fed governor and the housing bubble was a mere gleam
in Alan Greenspan's eye.

Economic Growth Slows, Inflation Surges
Economic growth braked sharply in the first quarter as higher food and
gasoline prices dampened consumer spending and sent inflation rising at
its fastest pace in 2-1/2 years.

US Election
2010: The Fed Will Make Sure Obama Wins 2012
As we approach next year's presidential elections, the chances of
President Barack Obama being ousted by a rival from either side of the
political divide are low, according to Thanos Papasavvas, the head of
currency management at Investec Asset Management.

GE sees best profit outlook in a decade
General Electric Co sees its best earnings growth prospects in a decade
as the global economic recovery drives demand for the heavy energy and
aviation equipment it makes, top executives said.

Australia To Be Port Of Call For Chinese Navy
CHINESE warships could be heading to Australian ports this year after
the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, took "a few small steps" towards
military transparency and co-operation with President Hu Jintao.

Dieters Easily Misled By Food Labels
A recent study examining the names and descriptions of foods reinforces
the growing body of evidence that health claims can cause confusion
among consumers.

Medically Ignorant School Officials Traumatize Young Boy
A young "special needs" boy from Queens, NY, recently bore the wrath of
public school officials when he began acting up over a mismatched color
on an Easter egg he was painting during class. Young Joseph Anderson
asked for his mother, Jessica, after becoming visibly upset, and school
officials proceeded to call her.

Today In
History - Thursday - April 28, 2011
1788 - Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the U.S.
constitution.
1789 - A mutiny on the British ship Bounty took place when a rebel crew
took the ship and set sail to Pitcairn Island. The mutineers left
Captain W. Bligh and 18 sailors adrift.
1818 - U.S. President James Monroe proclaimed naval disarmament on the
Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
1902 - A revolution broke out in the Dominican Republic.
1910 - First night air flight was performed by Claude Grahame-White in
England.
1914 - W.H. Carrier patented the design of his air conditioner.
1916 - The British declared martial law throughout Ireland.
1919 - The League of Nations was founded.
1930 - The first organized night baseball game was played in
Independence, Kansas.
1932 - The yellow fever vaccine for humans was announced.
1937 - The first animated-cartoon electric sign was displayed on a
building on Broadway in New York City. It was created by Douglas Leight.
1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by
Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country.
1952 - The U.S. occupation of Japan officially ended when a treaty with
the U.S. and 47 other countries went into effect.
1953 - French troops evacuated northern Laos.
1959 - Arthur Godfrey was seen for the last time in the final broadcast
of "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends" on CBS-TV.
1965 - The U.S. Army and Marines invaded the Dominican Republic to
evacuate Americans.
1967 - Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army and was
stripped of boxing title. He sited religious grounds for his refusal.
1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigned as president of France.
1974 - The last Americans were evacuated from Saigon.
1977 - Christopher Boyce was convicted of selling U.S. secrets.
1988 - In Maui, HI, one flight attendant was killed when the fuselage of
a Boeing 737 ripped open in mid-flight.
1989 - Mobil announced that they were divesting from South Africa
because congressional restrictions were too costly.
1992 - The U.S. Agriculture Department unveiled a pyramid-shaped
recommended-diet chart.
1994 - Former CIA official Aldrich Ames, who had given U.S. secrets to
the Soviet Union and then Russia, pled guilty to espionage and tax
evasion. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
1996 - U.S. President Clinton gave a 4 1/2 hour videotaped testimony as
a defense witness in the criminal trial of his former Whitewater
business partners.
1997 - A worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons took effect. Russia
and other countries such as Iraq and North Korea did not sign.
1999 - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected (on a tie vote of
213-213) a measure expressing support for NATO's five-week-old air
campaign in Yugoslavia. The House also voted to limit the president's
authority to use ground forces in Yugoslavia.
2000 - Jay Leno received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2001 - A Russian rocket launched from Central Asia with the first space
tourist aboard. The crew consisted of California businessman Dennis Tito
and two cosmonauts. The destination was the international space station.

Rev. David Wilkerson Killed in TX Car Crash
Rev. David Wilkerson, founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York
City and author of the well-known book The Cross and the Switchblade,
was killed Wednesday in a head-on collision in Texas. He was 79.

Storms knock out 3 TVA nuclear units, power lines
Severe storms and tornadoes moving through the U.S. Southeast dealt a
severe blow to the Tennessee Valley Authority on Wednesday, causing
three nuclear reactors in Alabama to shut and knocking out 11
high-voltage power lines, the utility and regulators said.

DHS Can't Account For 10 Libyan Men It Caught And Released Inside US
Even as President Barack Obama continued the U.S. military intervention
in Libya’s civil war--with armed Predator drones beginning patrols over
that North African country on Thursday--U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), the division of the Department of Homeland Security
responsible for enforcing immigration laws, could not account for 10
Libyan men it had caught and released inside the United States since
July 2009.

Tornado Season Intensifies, Without Scientific Consensus On Why
All the warning sirens echoing across the Great Plains, Midwest and
Southeast this month leave little doubt that the tornado season — which
has plowed a trail of destruction through communities from Oklahoma to
Wisconsin to Georgia — is off to an unusually busy start.

The Largest Detention Camp In World History Is Almost Complete
In the world of talk radio, the internet, and various other media
outlets there have been legends of FEMA camps under construction
throughout the United States, stories about U.N. troops training to
round up United States citizens, and concoctions which make for
fascinating fiction but little if any fact to support the various
stories.

Thanks To Obama, Gas Jumps In A Flash
It must have looked so simple from Barack Obama’s rarely visited Senate
office, or Steven Chu’s comfortable digs at Berkeley: if only we stopped
taking advantage of all those nasty fossil fuels, everything would be
better.

Critics Say Fed Policies Devalue The US Dollar
For generations of Americans raised on the supremacy of the American
Dollar and the U.S. economy, a forecast this week from the International
Monetary Fund was stunning. It predicted that China's economy will
surpass that of the U.S. in five years.

Panetta To Pentagon, Petraeus To CIA
President Barack Obama plans to name CIA Director Leon Panetta as the
next secretary of defense and move Gen. David Petraeus, now running the
war in Afghanistan, into the CIA chief's job in a major shuffle of the
nation's national security leadership, administration and other sources
said Wednesday.

US Economy: US
Banks Warn Obama On Soaring Debt
A group of the largest US banks and fund managers stepped up the
pressure on Congress and the Obama administration to reach a deal to
increase the country’s debt limit, saying that even a short default
could be devastating for the financial markets and economy.

Miss America Sexually Molested By TSA
In the video below, the former beauty queen who held the Miss America
title in 2003, Susie Castillo, says a TSA “screener” fondled her vagina
during an intrusive pat-down.

Today In
History - Wednesday - April 27, 2011
1805 - A force led by U.S. Marines captured the city of Derna, on the
shores of Tripoli.
1813 - Americans under Gen. Pike capture York (present day Toronto) the
seat of government in Ontario.
1861 - U.S. President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
1861 - West Virginia seceded from Virginia after Virginia seceded from
the Union during the American Civil War.
1863 - The Army of the Potomac began marching on Chancellorsville.
1865 - In the U.S. the Sultana exploded while carrying 2,300 Union POWs.
Between 1,400 - 2,000 were killed.
1903 - Jamaica Race Track opened in Long Island, NY.
1909 - The sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II, was overthrown.
1937 - German bombers devastated Guernica, Spain.
1938 - Geraldine Apponyi married King Zog of Albania. She was the first
American woman to become a queen.
1946 - The SS African Star was placed in service. It was the first
commercial ship to be equipped with radar.
1950 - South Africa passed the Group Areas Act, which formally
segregated races.
1953 - The U.S. offered $50,000 and political asylum to any Communist
pilot that delivered a MIG jet.
1953 - Five people were killed and 60 injured when Mt. Aso erupted on
the island of Kyushu.
1960 - The submarine Tullibee was launched from Groton, CT. It was the
first sub to be equipped with closed-circuit television.
1965 - "Pampers" were patented by R.C. Duncan.
1967 - In Montreal, Prime Minister Lester Pearson lighted a flame to
open Expo 67.
1975 - Saigon was encircled by North Vietnamese troops.
1983 - Nolan Ryan (Houston Astros) broke a 55-year-old major league
baseball record when he struck out his 3,509th batter of his career.
1992 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed in Belgrade by
the Republic of Serbia and its ally Montenegro.
1992 - Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
2005 - The A380, the world's largest jetliner, completed its maiden
flight. The passenger capability was 840.
2005 - Russian President Vladimir Putin became the first Kremlin leader
to visit Israel.
2006 - In New York, NY, construction began on the 1,776-foot Freedom
Tower on the site of former World Trade Center.

The Community
Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP)
The Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP) is a network of 29
monitoring stations located in communities surrounding and downwind of
the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), formerly the Nevada Test Site
(NTS), that monitor the airborne environment for manmade radioactivity
that could result from NNSS activities.

Cities Under a High Risk for Tornadoes
The map on this website outlines the greatest threat for tornadoes and
overall severe weather on Wednesday, April 27, 2011. The Storm
Prediction Center has issued a *high* risk for severe weather today.
Click and zoom in to discover if your town or city is at risk.

China's Central Banker: We Own Too Much US Debt
China's Central Bank Chairman Zhou Xiaochuan told a Chinese monetary
conference last week that “Foreign-exchange reserves have exceeded the
reasonable level that our country
actually needs,” which is essentially code for China won't be buying
U.S. government debt any more.

Earthquakes Continue To Rattle Faulkner County
After what has been a fairly quiet month, Central Arkansas is starting
to feel the rumble of earthquakes again. Four quakes rattled the
Greenbrier area this morning, the largest was a 3.2 magnitude.

Stories Of Survival From Twister-Hit Town
A tornado that tore through this small town killed four people but left
Arkansas' governor wondering Tuesday how so many others — including 12
who huddled in a storm cellar the size of a closet — managed to survive.

Flooding to Worsen Along Ohio, Mississippi Rivers
Excessive rainfall is predicted over the next several days from Arkansas
to New York. Many locations along already-flooded rivers and streams
could receive another 6 to 8 inches of rain, and locally more, through
Wednesday.

Quake Shakes Acapulco, Tourists To Streets
A moderate earthquake shook the Mexican Pacific coast resort of Acapulco
on Tuesday, forcing dozens of nervous spring vacationers into the
streets. No damages or injuries were reported.

Russia Warns Over New UN Resolution On Libya
Russia said on Tuesday it will not support any United Nations Security
Council resolutions on Libya which could escalate the conflict in the
North African nation, local news agencies reported.

Enormous Statue Of Powerful Pharaoh Unearthed
Archaeologists unearthed one of the largest statues found to date of a
powerful ancient Egyptian pharaoh at his mortuary temple in the southern
city of Luxor, the country's antiquities authority announced Tuesday.

Today In
History - Tuesday - April 26, 2011
1865 - Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee to Sherman
during the American Civil War.
1865 - John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry.
1906 - In Hawaii, motion pictures were shown for the first time.
1921 - Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on radio in St.
Louis, MO.
1929 - First non-stop flight from England to India was completed.
1937 - German planes attacked Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil
War.
1945 - Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the head of France's Vichy
government during World War II, was arrested.
1964 - The African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form
Tanzania.
1964 - The Boston Celtics won their sixth consecutive NBA title. They
won two more before the streak came to an end.
1968 - Students seized the administration building at Ohio State
University.
1982 - The British announced that Argentina had surrendered on South
Georgia.
1983 - Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 1,200 for first time.
1985 - In Argentina, a fire at a mental hospital killed 79 people and
injured 247.
1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl,
in Kiev. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were
exposed to radioactive material.
1998 - Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera was bludgeoned to death
two days after a report he'd compiled on atrocities during Guatemala's
36-year civil war was made public.
2000 - Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar purchased the NHL's New York
Islanders.
2002 - In Erfurt, Germany, an expelled student killed 17 people at his
former school. The student then killed himself.

More Storms, tornadoes lash North, East Texas
Persistent, severe thunderstorms lashed parts of Texas throughout the
afternoon and night Monday, spawning more than a dozen tornadoes that
authorities said caused widely scattered damage, although there were no
immediate reports of injuries.

EU crackdown on herbal ‘remedies’
From April 30 many herbal products will begin to disappear from the
shelves of Ireland‘s 300 herbal outlets following an EU directive which
will regulate medicinal herbs in the same way as pharmaceutical
products.

VIDEO: Paul Craig Roberts: Why Is NATO Really In Libya?
Is NATO failing with its attempts in Libya? Former Regan Administration
official Paul Craig Roberts thinks the situation with Gaddafi is much
different than the other recent protests in the Arab world. “Why is NATO
there?” has become to real question, says Roberts, who fears that risky
involvement stemming from American influence could lead to catastrophic
breaking point.

Bank Settles Military Foreclosure Claims
Banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co., which admitted earlier this year
that it had improperly overcharged thousands of military families on
their mortgages and foreclosed on the homes of servicemembers in Iraq
and Afghanistan, will pay $26 million to settle the class action lawsuit
that brought the activity to light.

Cell Phone Towers and Antennas on School Property
More and more school divisions are securing cell tower leases or cell
phone antennas leases on school buildings and field light poles. These
leases are a lucrative and an easy source of revenue to reduce school
division budget gaps.

Military patrols start Friday night in downtown Columbus
Starting at 10 o'clock Friday, two senior non-commissioned officers from
Fort Benning will be walking the streets of Downtown Columbus, also
known as, "Uptown." The soldiers will be wearing arm bands that read,
"Courtesy Patrol." Read More...

Oil Slips As Silver Retreat Spurs Profit Taking
Oil turned lower on Monday as a bout of profit-taking was sparked when
silver reversed after a sharp rally and when there was no follow through
after U.S. oil prices hit their highest since September 2008 in early
trading.

IMF Bombshell: Age Of America Nears End
For the first time, the international organization has set a date for
the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will
be overtaken by that of China.

Why The Fed Must End QE2 On April 27th
The Federal Reserve has lost all credibility on Wall Street, and most of
the American public with the absolute refusal to recognize the dire
effects on asset prices that QE2 has created.

Its GAME
OVER For The US
For the first time since the Great Depression, the US is now officially
paying out more in benefits than it takes in via tax receipts.

Killing Pat Tillman
Today is the seventh anniversary of Pat Tillman’s assassination in
Afghanistan. On April 22, 2004 Tillman and several other Army Rangers
were given an odd order to split their motorized squad and proceed
toward a village called Magarah.

OPEC Unlikely
To Change Output Despite Price Surge
OPEC members with spare capacity are ready to pump above agreed limits
if there is a need, but the producer group is unlikely to formally
change output targets at a meeting in June, Gulf delegates told Reuters
on Monday.

Obama Foodorama: Easter Storm Over The White House
Nothing to do with White House food initiatives, but I thought that
fellow armchair storm enthusiasts would appreciate these photos. Tonight
was actually a warm, still Easter evening in Washington--until all of a
sudden, it wasn't. I shot these at about 8:30 PM.

Today In
History - Monday - April 25, 2011
1831 - The New York and Harlem Railway was incorporated in New York
City.
1846 - The Mexican-American War ignited as a result of disputes over
claims to Texas boundaries. The outcome of the war fixed Texas' southern
boundary at the Rio Grande River.
1859 - Work began on the Suez Canal in Egypt.
1860 - The first Japanese diplomats to visit a foreign power reached
Washington, DC. They remained in the U.S. capital for several weeks
while discussing expansion of trade with the United States.
1862 - Union Admiral Farragut occupied New Orleans, LA.
1898 - The U.S. declared war on Spain. Spain had declared war on the
U.S. the day before.
1901 - New York became the first state to require license plates for
cars. The fee was $1.
1915 - During World War I, Australian and New Zealand troops landed at
Gallipoli in Turkey in hopes of attacking the Central Powers from below.
The attack was unsuccessful.
1928 - A seeing eye dog was used for the first time.
1945 - Delegates from about 50 countries met in San Francisco to
organize the United Nations.
1954 - The prototype manufacture of the first solar battery was
announced by the Bell Laboratories in New York City.
1957 - Operations began at the first experimental sodium nuclear
reactor.
1962 - The U.S. spacecraft, Ranger, crashed on the Moon.
1971 - The country of Bangladesh was established.
1974 - Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar was overthrown in a military
coup.
1976 - Portugal ratified a constitution. It was first revised on October
30, 1982.
1980 - In Iran, a commando mission to rescue hostages was aborted after
mechanical problems disabled three of the eight helicopters involved.
During the evacuation, a helicopter and a transport plan collided and
exploded. Eight U.S. servicemen were killed. The mission was aimed at
freeing American hostages that had been taken at the U.S. embassy in
Tehran on November 4, 1979. The event took place April 24th Washington,
DC, time.
1982 - In accordance with Camp David agreements, Israel completed its
Sinai withdrawal.
1984 - David Anthony Kennedy, the son of Robert F. Kennedy, was found
dead of a drug overdose in a hotel room.
1990 - The U.S. Hubble Space Telescope was placed into Earth's orbit. It
was released by the space shuttle Discovery.
1992 - Islamic forces in Afghanistan took control of most of the capital
of Kabul following the collapse of the Communist government.
1996 - The main assembly of the Palestine Liberation Organization voted
to revoke clauses in its charter that called for an armed struggle to
destroy Israel.
1998 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on was questioned by
Whitewater prosecutors on videotape about her work as a private lawyer
for the failed savings and loan at the center of the investigation.
2003 - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader and ex-wife
of former President Nelson Mandela, was sentenced to four years in
prison for her conviction on fraud and theft charges. She was convicted
of 43 counts of fraud and 25 of theft of money from a women's political
league.
2007 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 13,000 for the
first time.

Free-range egg ban shuts bed and breakfast
A P.E.I. bed and breakfast that has been operating for decades has
decided to close down next year rather than stop serving eggs from its
own hens because of a government order.

Massive Severe Outbreak Next Week
It appears the onslaught of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms that have
claimed dozens of lives and left communities in ruins from the Plains
into the East over the past few weeks is going to continue right into
next week.

Pesticide Exposure Linked To Low IQ
Children exposed to high pesticide levels in the womb have lower average
IQs than other kids, according to three independent studies released
today in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Trouble Coming
There is trouble coming into the world, My children. You see trouble
around you now but it will grow far, far worse than this as this new age
dawns. The troubles you see before you now are very minute compared to
what is soon to come.

Syria Rounds Up Opponents After 120 Dead
Security forces raided homes across Syria, arresting regime opponents,
as funerals were held on Sunday for protesters and mourners killed in a
bloody crackdown which activists said cost 120 lives.

Drug Injection Delays Puberty
Children with supposed "Gender Identity Disorder" (GID), a rare
condition involving sexual confusion, that are having a hard time
deciding whether they want to be male or female can now choose to
artificially delay puberty while they figure it out.

Today In
History - Friday - April 22, 2011
1792 - U.S. President George Washington proclaimed American neutrality
in the war in Europe.
1861 - Robert E. Lee was named commander of Virginia forces.
1864 - The U.S. Congress mandated that all coins minted as U.S. currency
bear the inscription "In God We Trust".
1876 - Eight baseball teams began the inaugural season of the National
League.
1889 - At noon, the Oklahoma land rush officially started as thousands
of Americans raced for new, unclaimed land.
1898 - The first shot of the Spanish-American war occurred when the USS
Nashville captured a Spanish merchant ship.
1915 - At the Second Battle Ypres the Germans became the first country
to use poison gas.
1918 - British naval forces attempted to sink block-ships in the German
U-boat bases at the Battle of Zeeburgge.
1930 - The U.S., Britain and Japan signed the London Naval Treaty, which
regulated submarine warfare and limited shipbuilding.
1931 - Egypt signed the treaty of friendship with Iraq.
1944 - During World War II, the Allies launched a major attack against
the Japanese in Hollandia, New Guinea.
1952 - An atomic test conducted in Nevada was the first nuclear
explosion shown on live network television.
1954 - The U.S. Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began.
1970 - The first "Earth Day" was observed by millions of Americans.
1976 - Barbara Walters became first female nightly network news anchor.
1987 - The American Physical Society said that the "Star Wars" missile
system was "highly questionable" and would take ten years to research.
1993 - The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in Washington,
DC.
1997 - 93 people are killed in the insurgency of extremist Muslims that
continued in Algeria in a town south of Algiers.
2000 - Elian Gonzalez was reunited with his father. He had to be taken
from his Miami relatives by U.S. agents in a predawn raid.
2000 - ABC-TV aired a small portion of the Clinton-DiCaprio interview.
2002 - Filippino President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered a state of
emergency in the city of General Santos in response to a series of
bombing attacks the day before. The attacks were blamed on Muslim
extremists.
2005 - Zacarias Moussaoui pled guilty to conspiring with hijackers in
the September 11, 2001, plot to attack American buildings and citizens.

United States deploys armed drones in Libya
President Barack Obama has given U.S. forces the go-ahead to use armed
Predator drones in Libya after forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar
Qadhafi changed their tactics in the fighting there, Defense Secretary
Robert Gates announced Thursday.

Power Grids, Oil Refineries Face 'Staggering' Level Of Cybersecurity
Critical infrastructure firms such as power grids and oil refineries are
facing “staggering” level of cyberattacks, and are not adequately
prepared to defend themselves, finds a new report published today (April
19) by the security firm McAfee and the Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS).

Northern Utah Farmers Rained Out
Rains in northern Utah are preventing farmers from planting crops or
moving cattle onto mountain ranges, even as other portions of the state
are dry.

Obama Skips Tornado Destruction, Heads West To Raise Money
President Obama is opting not to visit the tornado-ravaged areas of the
South, choosing instead to embark today on a three day tour out West
where he will try to boost his political standing by talking up his
approach to the deficit and raise millions for himself and fellow
Democrats.

Why do 3
Supporters Own Obama's Home?
Barack Obama is not among at least three people listed as current owners
and taxpayers of the mansion his family calls home in Chicago's upscale
Kenwood neighborhood, according to public records.

Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs Emit Carcinogens, Scientists Say
There's apparently a new reason to be wary of energy-saving lightbulbs.
In a new report, scientists in Germany warn that compact fluorescent
lamps (CFLs) emit carcinogenic chemicals and toxins—including phenol,
naphthalene, and styrene—when turned on, resulting in what one
scientists describes as "electrical smog." Because of that, they should
be used "very economically" and "should not be used in unventilated
areas and definitely not in the proximity of the head," he adds.

Have You Noticed? The Nations Are Shaking
Our editor in chief, Gerald Flurry, had written a landmark booklet,
called Haggai: God Has Begun to Shake the Nations, based on a biblical
prophecy. “And I will shake all nations,” God says in Haggai 2:7.

GE's Profit Jumps 77%
General Electric Co. reported a 77% increase in first-quarter profit,
leaning heavily on its large lending business even as its core
industrial operations picked up.

US Jobless Claims Stick Above 400,000
The number of people claiming unemployment benefit stayed above 400,000
for the second week in a row, according to the latest US labour
department figures.

S&P Lifts
Estonia's Ratings Outlook To Positive
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's said on Thursday it had upgraded euro
zone member Estonia's rating outlook to positive from stable as the
Baltic country's economy continues to strengthen without reverting to a
heavy reliance on external funding.

Obama OK's Use Of Armed Drone Aircraft In Libya
President Barack Obama has approved the use of armed Predator drone
aircraft in Libya to improve the precision of low-level attacks on
ground targets, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.

Nuclear Weather Worsens
Every day the news gets worse. Today it was robots telling us that
radiation is so hot inside the nuclear plant in Japan that workers will
have a hard to impossible time to work in certain areas to recover the
plant from worst case scenarios.

Blue Hill Becomes Third Town In Maine To Pass Food Freedom Law
Within the past several months, numerous towns in Maine, and one in
Vermont, have proposed or enacted food sovereignty laws that declare,
plainly, that the federal government has no business telling citizens
what food products they can and cannot buy or sell locally.

Today In
History - Thursday - April 21, 2011
1689 - William III and Mary II were crowned joint king and queen of
England, Scotland and Ireland.
1789 - John Adams was sworn in as the first U.S. Vice President.
1836 - General Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San
Jacinto. This battle decided the independence of Texas.
1856 - The Mississippi River was crossed by a rail train for the first
time (between Davenport, IA, and Rock Island, IL).
1862 - The U.S. Congress established the U.S. Mint in Denver, CO.
1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train left Washington.
1892 - The first Buffalo was born in Golden Gate Park.
1898 - The Spanish-American War began.
1914 - U.S. Marines occupied Vera Cruz, Mexico. The troops stayed for
six months.
1918 - German fighter ace Baron von Richthofen, "The Red Baron," was
shot down and killed during World War I.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announced that several
Doolittle pilots had been executed by the Japanese.
1956 - Leonard Ross, age 10, became the youngest prizewinner on the "The
Big Surprise". He won $100,000.
1959 - The largest fish ever hooked by a rod and reel was caught by Alf
Dean. It was a 16-foot, 10-inch white shark that weighed 2,664 pounds.
1960 - Brasilia became the capital of Brazil.
1967 - Svetlana Alliluyeva (Svetlana Stalina) defected in New York City.
She was the daughter of Joseph Stalin.
1972 - Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explored the
surface of the moon.
1975 - South Vietnam president, Nguyen Van Thieu, resigned, condemning
the United States.
1984 - In France, it was announced that doctors had found virus believed
to cause AIDS.
1985 - Manuel Ortega proposed a cease-fire for Nicaragua.
1987 - Special occasion stamps offered for the first time by the U.S.
Postal Service. "Happy Birthday" and "Get Well" were among the first to
be offered.
1992 - Robert Alton Harris became the first person executed by the state
of California in 25 years. Put to death for the 1978 murder of two
teen-age boys.
1994 - Jackie Parker became the first woman to qualify to fly an F-16
combat plane.
1998 - Astronomers announced in Washington that they had discovered
possible signs of a new family of planets orbiting a star 220
light-years away.
2000 - North Carolina researchers announced that the heart of a 66
million-year-old dinosaur was more like a mammal or bird than that of a
reptile.
2000 - The 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act went into
effect.
2003 - North and South Korea agreed to hold Cabinet-level talks the
following week.
2009 - UNESCO launched The World Digital Library. The World Digital
Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and
the United States Library of Congress.

iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go
Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of
where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the
device which is then copied to the owner's computer when the two are
synchronised. Apple’s iPhone saves every detail of your movements to a
file on the device.

Why do 3
supporters own Obama's home?
This, the first of a series of articles on the Obama home at 5046 S.
Greenwood, establishes that three individuals other than Obama are
listed in public records as owners and taxpayers on the property.

Texas Fire Situation Is Of 'Historic Proportions'
In what has been described as being almost the "perfect fire storm," a
never-before-seen wildfire situation in Texas has led to the scorching
of more than 1 million acres and destruction of hundreds of homes and
buildings.

Oil Settles Above
$111 Barrel
Oil settled above $111 per barrel Wednesday as the dollar weakened and
the government reported an unexpected drop in U.S. crude supplies. Gas
pump prices also edged higher to $3.84 for a gallon of regular.

US Weighs Summer GM Stock Sale
The U.S. government plans to sell a significant share of its remaining
stake in General Motors Co. this summer despite the disappointing
performance of the auto maker's stock, people familiar with the matter
said.

New Terrorism Alert System Will Offer Specific Warnings
A new terrorism warning system will provide the public with information
on specific threats, replacing the color-coded alerts put in place after
the September 11, 2001, attacks, Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano said Wednesday.

New Warning: Dangerous Antibacterial Soap Chemical Found In Fish
The current mania over putting anti-bacterial chemicals in everything
from cleaning wipes and hand soap to detergent and toothpaste has
resulted in the widespread contamination of the environment with two
related toxins often found in these products -- triclocarban (TCC) and
triclosan.

Mainstream Media Receives Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars Via Obamacare
Slush Fund
If you have to be convinced that Obamacare was not created with the best
interests of average Americans in mind, consider the fact that the
government health care bill has allocated a $5 billion "slush fund" to
be distributed specifically to companies, states, labor unions, and
media outlets hand-selected by the Obama Administration.

Today In
History - Wednesday - April 20, 2011
1775 - American troops began the siege of British-held Boston.
1792 - France declared war on Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia. It was the
start of the French Revolutionary wars.
1809 - Napoleon defeated Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria.
1832 - Hot Springs National Park was established by an act of the U.S.
Congress. It was the first national park in the U.S.
1836 - The U.S. territory of Wisconsin was created by the U.S. Congress.
1861 - Robert E. Lee resigned from U.S. Army.
1865 - Safety matches were first advertised.
1902 - Scientists Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive
element radium.
1912 - Fenway Park opened as the home of the Boston Red Sox.
1916 - Chicago's Wrigley Field held its first Cubs game with the first
National League. The Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings.
1919 - The Polish Army captured Vilno, Lithuania from the Soviets.
1940 - The First electron microscope was demonstrated by RCA.
1942 - Pierre Laval, the premier of Vichy France, in a radio broadcast,
establishes a policy of "true reconciliation with Germany."
1945 - Soviet troops began their attack on Berlin.
1945 - During World War II, Allied forces took control of the German
cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart.
1951 - General MacArthur addressed the joint session of Congress after
being relieved by U.S. President Truman.
1953 - Operation Little Switch began in Korea. It was the exchange of
sick and wounded prisoners of war. Thirty Americans were freed.
1961 - FM stereo broadcasting was approved by the FCC.
1967 - U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam
War.
1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial
desegregation in schools.
1972 - The manned lunar module from Apollo 16 landed on the moon.
1978 - The Korean Airliner Flight 902 was shot down while in Russian
airspace. Two passengers were killed when the plane landed on a frozen
lake.
1981 - A spokesman for the U.S. Nave announced that the U.S. was
accepting full responsibility for the sinking of the Nissho Maru on
April 9.
1984 - In Washington, terrorists bombed an officers club at a Navy yard.
1984 - Britain announced that its administration of Hong Kong would
cease in 1997.
1985 - In Madrid, Santiago Carillo was purged from the Communist Party.
Carillo was a founder of Eurocommunism.
1987 - In Argentina, President Raul Alfonsin quelled a military revolt.
1988 - The U.S. Air Forces' Stealth (B-2 bomber) was officially
unveiled.
1989 - Scientist announced the successful testing of high-definition TV.
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev became the first Soviet head of state to visit
South Korea.
1999 - 13 people were killed at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO,
when two teenagers opened fire on them with shotguns and pipebombs. The
two gunmen then killed themselves.

A Year Later, Gulf Still Grapples With Oil Spill
The disaster that captivated the world's attention for 153 days struck
at 9:53 p.m. CDT on April 20, when a surge of methane gas known to rig
hands as a "kick" sparked an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig
as it was drilling the mile-deep Macondo 252 well off Louisiana's coast.
Two days later, the rig sank.

Staph seen in nearly half of U.S. meat
Almost half of the meat and poultry sold at U.S. supermarkets and
grocery stores contains a type of bacteria that is potentially harmful
to humans, a new study estimates. Researchers tested 136 packages of
chicken, turkey, pork, and ground beef purchased at 26 grocery stores in
five cities around the country, and found that 47 percent contained
Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), a common cause of infection in
people.

Two suspects in
Italian activist's death killed in raid
Two suspects in the death of an Italian activist were killed Tuesday in
a firefight with security forces in Gaza, Hamas said. A third suspect
was wounded and taken to a hospital. They were wanted in the killing of
pro-Palestinian activist Vittorio Arrigoni

EU Preparing To Launch Ground Invasion In Libya
The United Nations is set to rubber stamp an EU invasion force of ground
troops that would be sent into Libya under the cooked up pretense of
“humanitarian aid” and empowered to fight if Gaddafi forces threatened
to impede their mission to “secure sea and land corridors inside the
country,” another blatant attempt to legitimize the aggressive war by
goading Gaddafi into attacking western troops and justifying a wider
military intervention.

Millions Prepare For Midwest Earthquake
More than two million people in the Midwest, including a half million
people in Indiana, took part in what's being called one of the largest
earthquake drills ever on Tuesday. It is called the Great Central U.S.
ShakeOut.

World Leaders Address Rising Food Costs In Weekend DC
According to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the
global economy is "one shock away from a “full-grown crisis.” In a
weekend-long meeting at the World Bank building in Washington, D.C.,
global leaders discussed the global economy and the financial struggles
that lie ahead.

Plane With Michele Obama Had To Abort Landing Because Of Mistake
A White House plane carrying Michelle Obama came dangerously close to a
200-ton military cargo jet and had to abort its landing at Joint Base
Andrews on Monday as the result of an air traffic controller’s mistake,
according to federal officials familiar with the incident.

China Urges US
To Protect Creditors After S&P Warning
China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the United States must
take "responsible" measures to protect investors in its debt after
Standard & Poor's threatened to lower its credit rating on the United
States due to a bulging budget deficit.

Statins Cause Memory Loss, Depression
The growing list of serious negative side effects caused by statin drugs
now includes memory loss and depression, according to a new study
published in the Cochrane Library.

More than 7 million candles recalled for fire risk
More than 7 million candles are being recalled because of concerns the
cup holding the candle could melt or catch fire. The Consumer Product
Safety Commission says the tea lights were sold under the Chesapeake Bay
Candle and Modern Light brand names. They were sold at Home Goods,
Target, Wegmans and other stores nationwide between July 2009 and
February 2011.

Today In
History - Tuesday - April 19, 2011
1764 - The English Parliament banned the American colonies from printing
paper money.
1775 - The American Revolution began as fighting broke out at Lexington,
MA.
1802 - The Spanish reopened the New Orleans port to American merchants.
1839 - The Kingdom of Belgium was recognized by all the states of Europe
when the Treaty of London was signed.
1852 - The California Historical Society was founded.
1861 - Thaddeus S. C. Lowe sailed 900 miles in nine hours in a hot air
balloon from Cincinnati, OH, to Unionville, SC.
1861 - The Baltimore riots resulted in four Union soldiers and nine
civilians killed.
1861 - U.S. President Lincoln ordered a blockade of Confederate ports.
1897 - The first annual Boston Marathon was held. It was the first of
its type in the U.S.
1933 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation that
removed the U.S. from the gold standard.
1938 - General Francisco Franco declared victory in the Spanish Civil
War.
1939 - Connecticut approved the Bill of Rights for the U.S. Constitution
after 148 years.
1951 - General Douglas MacArthur gave his "Old Soldiers" speech before
the U.S. Congress. In the address General MacArthur said that "Old
soldiers never die, they just fade away."
1951 - Shigeki Tanaka won the Boston Marathon. Tanaka had survived the
atomic blast at Hiroshima, Japan during World War II.
1967 - Surveyor 3 landed on the moon and began sending photos back to
the U.S.
1971 - Russia launched the Salyut into orbit around Earth. It was the
first space station.
1975 - India launched its first satellite with aid from the USSR.
1982 - NASA named Sally Ride to be first woman astronaut.
1982 - NASA named Guion S. Bluford Jr. as the first African-American
astronaut.
1982 - The U.S. announced a ban on U.S. tourist and business traval to
Cuba. The U.S. charged the Cuban government with subversion in Central
America.
1987 - The last California condor known to be in the wild was captured
and placed in a breeding program at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.
1989 - A giant asteroid passed within 500,000 miles of Earth.
1993 - The Branch-Davidian’s compound in Waco, TX, burned to the ground.
It was the end of a 51-day standoff between the cult and U.S. federal
agents. 86 people were killed including 17 children. Nine of the Branch
Davidians escaped the fire.
1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, was
destroyed by a bomb. It was the worst bombing on U.S. territory. 168
people were killed including 19 children, and 500 were injured. Timothy
McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing on June 2, 1997.
2000 - The Oklahoma City National Memorial was dedicated on the fifth
anniversary of the bombing in Oklahoma that killed 168 people.
2002 - The USS Cole was relaunched. In Yemen, 17 sailors were killed
when the ship was attacked by terrorists on October 12, 2000. The attack
was blamed on Osama bin Laden's al -Qaida network.

Bretton Woods II - The Final Countdown
Charges of a conspiracy theory are a convenient pretext to dismiss
criticism when the global financial elites meet to shape the next
evolution of centralized control of all economic activity.

More potentially tainted medical products recalled
The new recall includes two types of products: wipes used to protect the
skin before medical tapes and films are applied, and adhesive removers
that can clean residues from the skin, according to the firm. The
products, including UNI-SOLVE Adhesive Remover Wipes, are widely used by
diabetics and others who require daily medication.

GEAB 54
Global systemic crisis: Autumn 2011 – Budget/T-Bonds/Dollar, the three
US crises which will cause the Very Serious Breakdown of the global
economic, financial and monetary system.

Food: Biofuels Make A Comeback As Prices Rise
The combination of higher fuel prices and increased biofuel production,
a main driver of the 2007/08 maize price hike, is back in the news
because stocks are at their lowest levels in 30 years in the US, the
world's largest exporter.

Wall Street Falls On Sovereign Fear
Wall Street fell more than 1 percent on Monday as sovereign debt fears
on both sides of the Atlantic and China's monetary tightening hurt the
outlook for global economic growth.

Cantor Call S&P Action 'Wakeup Call' On Debt Limit
House of Representatives Republican leader Eric Cantor on Monday called
the Standard & Poor's downgrade of U.S. credit outlook "a wake-up call"
against those seeking to "blindly increase" the U.S. debt limit.

Obama Ignores Spending Bill's 'Czar' Ban
President Obama "is planning to ignore language in the 2011 spending
package that would ban several top White House advisory posts," signing
a statement in which he says has no obligation to comply, Politico
reports.

CT Scans Used To Monitor Success Of Cancer Treatments Cause More Cancer
Men diagnosed with testicular cancer often choose to undergo regular
computed tomography (CT) scans that monitor progress after treatment.
But a new study published in the journal Cancer explains that these CT
scans actually cause secondary cancers, and suggests that doctors
consider this important fact before flippantly recommending it to their
patients.

Today In
History - Monday - April 18, 2011
1775 - American revolutionaries Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel
Prescott rode though the towns of Massachusetts giving the warning that
"the Regulars are coming out." Later, the phrase "the British are
coming" was attributed to Revere.
1791 - National Guardsmen prevented Louis XVI and his family from
leaving Paris.
1818 - A regiment of Indians and blacks were defeated at the Battle of
Suwann, in Florida, ending the first Seminole War.
1834 - William Lamb became prime minister of England.
1838 - The Wilkes' expedition to the South Pole set sail.
1847 - U.S. troops defeated almost 17,000 Mexican soldiers commanded by
Santa Anna at Cerro Gordo. (Mexican-American War)
1895 - New York State passed an act that established free public baths.
1906 - San Francisco, CA, was hit with an earthquake. The original death
toll was cited at about 700. Later information indicated that the death
toll may have been 3 to 4 times the original estimate.
1910 - Walter R. Brookins made the first airplane flight at night.
1923 - Yankee Stadium opened in the Bronx, NY. The Yankees beat the
Boston Red Sox 4-1. John Phillip Sousa's band played the National
Anthem.
1934 - The first Laundromat opened in Fort Worth, TX.
1937 - Leon Trotsky called for the overthrow of Soviet leader Josef
Stalin.
1938 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt threw out the first ball
preceding the season opener between the Washington Senators and the
Philadelphia Athletics.
1942 - James H. Doolittle and his squadron, from the USS Hornet, raided
Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1943 - Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was
shot down by American P-38 fighters.
1945 - American war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese
gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. He was 44 years
old.
1946 - The League of Nations was dissolved.
1950 - The first transatlantic jet passenger trip was completed.
1978 - The U.S. Senate approved the transfer of the Panama Canal to
Panama on December 31, 1999.
1983 - The U.S. Embassy in Beirut was blown up by a suicide car-bomber.
63 people were killed including 17 Americans.
1985 - Ted Turner filed for a hostile takeover of CBS.
1985 - Tulane University abolished its 72-year-old basketball program.
The reason was charges of fixed games, drug abuse, and payments to
players.
1989 - Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy tried to storm
Communist Party headquarters in Beijing.
2000 - The Nasdaq had the biggest one-day point gain in its history.
2002 - Actor Robert Blake and his bodyguard were arrested in connection
with the shooting death of Blake's wife about a year before.
2002 - The city legislature of Berlin decided to make Marlene Dietrich
an honorary citizen. Dietrich had gone to the United States in 1930. She
refused to return to Germany after Adolf Hitler came to power.

Dozens Dead After Storms Rip Through 6 States
A furious storm system that kicked up tornadoes, flash floods and hail
as big as softballs has left dozens dead on a rampage that stretched for
days as it barreled from Oklahoma to North Carolina and Virginia.

Future Farm: A Sunless, Rainless Room Indoors
The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless building with
meticulously controlled light, temperature, humidity, air quality and
nutrition. It could be in a New York high-rise, a Siberian bunker or a
sprawling complex in the Saudi desert.

Massive Fish Kill In Lake Champlain
Quite a sight along the shores of Lake Champlain-- there's been a
massive fish kill. Alewives have washed ashore at the sandbar in Milton.
Vermont Fish and Wildlife biologists estimate that tens of thousands of
the nonnative species have died due to stress caused by frigid
temperatures.

Libyan Troops Shell Rebel-Held City
Troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are shelling the
rebel-held city of Ajdabiya, a strategic eastern town that has been the
scene of intense fighting in recent weeks.

Smoke At Another Japan Nuclear Plant
Smoke briefly rose Saturday from a control panel at a Japanese nuclear
power plant operated by the same company battling to stop radiation
seeping from a quake-stricken facility, a report said

Dull Market
Could Get Rocked If Oil Keeps Rising
With market complacency and optimism both nearing levels unseen since
before the financial crisis, the market either has A) put the damage of
the past two and a half years behind it, or B) is setting up for a fall.

Nevada SB 412 To Make Felons Out Of Natural Health Practitioners
Not quite successful in handing our right to choose the healthcare of
our choice over to international interests including Codex Alimentarius,
“Dirty Harry” is now stepping aside in this assault on our rights and
handing the next assault over to Republicans who are happily complying.
(And you thought there were two political parties!)

Today In
History - Friday - April 15, 2011
1850 - The city of San Francisco was incorporated.
1861 - U.S. President Lincoln mobilized the Federal army.
1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by
John Wilkes Booth.
1871 - "Wild Bill" Hickok became the marshal of Abilene, Kansas.
1880 - William Gladstone became Prime Minister of England.
1892 - The General Electric Company was organized.
1899 - Thomas Edison organized the Edison Portland Cement Company.
1912 - The ocean liner Titanic sank at 2:27 a.m. in the North Atlantic
after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and more
than 700 people survived.
1917 - The British defeated the Germans at the battle of Arras.
1923 - Insulin became generally available for people suffering with
diabetes.
1940 - French and British troops landed at Narvik, Norway.
1945 - During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the
Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
1952 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed the official Japanese peace
treaty.
1952 - The first B-52 prototype was tested in the air.
1956 - The worlds’ first, all-color TV station was dedicated. It was
WNBQ-TV in Chicago and is now WMAQ-TV.
1956 - General Motors announced that the first free piston automobile
had been developed.
1959 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro began a U.S. goodwill tour.
1986 - U.S. F-111 warplanes attacked Libya in response to the bombing of
a discotheque in Berlin on April 5, 1986.
1987 - In Northhampton, MA, Amy Carter, Abbie Hoffman and 13 others were
acquitted on civil disobedience charges related with a CIA protest.
1989 - Students in Beijing launched a series of pro democracy protests
upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang. The protests
led to the Tienanmen Square massacre.
1994 - The World Trade Organization was established.
1998 - Pol Pot died at the age of 73. The leader of the Khmer Rouge
regime thereby evaded prosecution for the deaths of 2 million
Cambodians.
2000 - 600 anti-IMF (International Monetary Fund) protesters were
arrested in Washington, DC, for demonstrating without a permit.

Tepco To Compensate Nuclear Evacuees, Funding Uncertain
Tepco, the operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant,
aims to begin making preliminary compensation payments to evacuees and
residents of the area around the facility next week. The utility's
president Masataka Shimizu said up to 50,000 households will be eligible
for the first payments, which are expected to total around Y50 billion.

Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy: no let-up in Libya until Gaddafi departs
President Obama today signals the return of America to the forefront of
the international effort in Libya, writing a joint article with David
Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy in which the three leaders commit their
countries to pursue military action until Colonel Gaddafi has been
removed.

Contrary to what they are telling us now...All Levels Of Radiation
Confirmed To Cause Cancer
Washington, DC July 30, 2005 The National Academies of Science released
an over 700-page report yesterday on the risks from ionizing radiation.
The BEIR VII or seventh Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation report
on "Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation"
reconfirmed the previous knowledge that there is no safe level of
exposure to radiation—that even very low doses can cause cancer. Risks
from low dose radiation are equal or greater than previously thought.
The committee reviewed some additional ways that radiation causes damage
to cells.

Wells Fargo Tests Microchip Credit Cards for Globetrotting Clients
Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), the U.S. bank with the most branches, is
testing microchip-embedded credit cards with frequent travelers to
address complaints of customers who have trouble using their cards
abroad. The pilot program announced today marks the first effort by a
major U.S. bank to deploy Visa Inc. (V) credit cards with so-called EMV-chip
technology, which has become a standard in Europe and much of the rest
of the world, according to San Francisco-based Wells Fargo.*** Related Article:
JPMorgan Pushes Microchip Cards in Race With Wells Fargo

Banks to Pay Victims of Botched Foreclosures in Settlement With
Regulators
The 14 largest U.S. mortgage servicers must pay back homeowners for
losses from foreclosures or loans that were mishandled in the wake of
the housing collapse, the first of a set of sanctions regulators are
seeking against the companies. The settlement announced today between
servicers and banking regulators could help the U.S. Justice Department
determine the size and scope of fines for the flawed practices,
regulators said.

Aspirin, Ibuprofen Linked To Erectile Dysfunction
A new study published in The Journal of Urology says that men who
regularly take over-the-counter (OTC) non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
drugs (NSAID) like ibuprofen and aspirin are more likely to develop
erectile dysfunction (ED) than men who do not take the drugs.

Today In
History - Thursday - April 14, 20111828 - The first edition of Noah
Webster's dictionary was published under the name "American Dictionary
of the English Language."
1860 - The first Pony Express rider arrived in San Francisco with mail
originating in St. Joseph, MO.
1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater
by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died early the next morning.
1902 - James Cash (J.C.) Penney opened his first retail store in
Kemmerer, WY. It was called the Golden Rule Store.
1910 - U.S. President William Howard Taft threw out the first ball for
the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics.
1912 - The Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an
iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost their lives and more than
700 survived.
1918 - The U.S. First Aero Squadron engaged in America's first aerial
dogfight with enemy aircraft over Toul, France.
1925 - WGN became the first radio station to broadcast a regular season
major league baseball game. The Cubs beat the Pirates 8-2.
1946 - The civil war between Communists and nationalist resumed in
China.
1953 - Viet Minh invaded Laos with 40,00 troops.
1956 - Ampex Corporation of Redwood City, CA, demonstrated the first
commercial magnetic tape recorder for sound and picture.
1959 - The Taft Memorial Bell Tower was dedicated in Washington, DC.
1969 - For the first time, a major league baseball game was played in
Montreal, Canada.
1981 - America's first space shuttle, Columbia, returned to Earth after
a three-day test flight. The shuttle orbited the Earth 36 times during
the mission.
1985 - The Russian paper "Pravda" called U.S. President Reagan's planned
visit to Bitburg to visit the Nazi cemetery an "act of blasphemy".
1986 - U.S. President Reagan announced the U.S. air raid on military and
terrorist related targets in Libya.
1987 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev proposed banning all missiles
from Europe.
1988 - Representatives from the U.S.S.R., Pakistan, Afghanistan and the
U.S. signed an agreement that called for the withdrawal of Soviet forces
from Afghanistan starting on May 15. The last Soviet troop left
Afghanistan on February 15, 1989.
1988 - In New York, real estate tycoons Harry and Leona Helmsley were
indicted for income tax evasion.
1990 - Cal Ripken of the Baltimore Orioles began a streak of 95
errorless games and 431 total chances by a shortstop.
1994 - Two American F-15 warplanes inadvertently shot down two U.S.
helicopters over northern Iraq. 26 people were killed including 15
Americans.
1998 - The state of Virginia ignored the requests from the World Court
and executed a Paraguayan for the murder of a U.S. woman.
1999 - Pakistan test-fired a ballistic missile that was capable of
carrying a nuclear warhead and reaching its rival neighbor India.
2000 - After five years of deadlock, Russia approved the START II treaty
that calls for the scrapping of U.S. and Russian nuclear warheads. The
Russian government warned it would abandon all arms-control pacts if
Washington continued with an anti-missile system.
2002 - U.S. President George W. Bush sent a letter of congratulations to
JCPenny's associates for being in business for 100 years. James Cash
(J.C.) Penney had opened his first retail store on April 14, 1902.
2002 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to office two days
after being arrested by his country's military.
2008 - Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines announced they were
combining.

Obama Outlines New Deficit-Reduction Plan, Slams GOP
Drawing a clear line between his budget priorities and a proposal
pitched by Republicans, President Obama outlined a new spending plan
Wednesday which he claimed would cut the deficit by $4 trillion within
12 years with a combination of spending cuts and tax increases on the
families making more than $250,000.

$38 Billion In Cuts? Make That $353 Million
Yesterday the media had a field day when it was uncovered that the hard
fought $38 billion in budget "cuts" which almost caused America to shut
down were in reality $14 billion. We, thus, can't wait to find out what
the response will be when it is uncovered that the actual cuts were...
$353 million. Yes: the ongoing functioning of the government was a pawn
in a soap opera whose benefit to the US debt is $353 million, or about
what Goldman's trading desk makes in less than one day.

Fed penalizes 10 banks on mortgage practices
The Federal Reserve said it's taken enforcement action against 10 banks
over "a pattern of misconduct and negligence related to deficient
practices in residential mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure
processing. These deficiencies represent significant and pervasive
compliance failures and unsafe and unsound practices at these
institutions."

Black Raspberries May Prevent Colon Cancer
Next time you make a fruit salad-why not toss in some black raspberries?
It turns out that these sweet little berries may play a key role in
preventing colon cancer, according to a University of Illinois at
Chicago study that was reported in a recent issue of Cancer Prevention
Research.

Gov't orders 14 lenders to reimburse homeowners
The federal government on Wednesday ordered 16 of the nation's largest
mortgage lenders and servicers to reimburse homeowners who were
improperly foreclosed upon. Government regulators also directed the
financial firms to hire auditors to determine how many homeowners could
have avoided foreclosure in 2009 and 2010.

Extreme Weather Dominates Central Plans
Two distinctly different weather patterns are playing out this spring in
the Central Plains states, with flooding to the far north and drought
and wild fires in the south. Both conditions provide significant
concerns for the coming growing season.

Children Told To Be Tested For HIV After Flu Vaccine Reused
A clinic in Northern Colorado is advising parents of children who
received a pediatric flu shot from their offices to get tested for some
blood-borne diseases including HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C after
their vaccine syringes were shared between patients.

Vitamin D Deficiency Inhibits Lung Growth, Function
Australian researchers have identified a clear link between vitamin D
deficiency and inhibited lung function. Published in the American
Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care
Medicine, the new study reveals that inadequate circulating blood levels
of vitamin D are responsible for both altered lung structure and
decreased lung function.

Amid Global Meltdowns, What Is The Half Life Of The US Government's
Fiscal Solvency?
Thanks to the recent (and laughable) "largest annual spending cut in
history" announced by Obama and Boehner, it is now abundantly evident
that the U.S. government is headed toward a complete economic meltdown
that will make Fukushima look chilly by comparison. While cesium-137 may
have a half-life of 30 years, and iodine-131 a half-life of 8 days, if
the U.S. government continues on its current path of spending trillions
of dollars it doesn't have, the half-life of the value of a dollar may
soon be measured in hours.

Today In
History - Wednesday - April 13, 2011
1782 - Washington, NC, was incorporated as the first town to be named
for George Washington.
1796 - The first known elephant to arrive in the United States from
Bengal, India.
1808 - William "Juda" Henry Lane perfected the tap dance.
1829 - The English Parliament granted freedom of religion to Catholics.
1849 - The Hungarian Republic was proclaimed.
1860 - The first mail was delivered via Pony Express when a westbound
rider arrived in Sacramento, CA from St. Joseph, MO.
1861 - After 34 hours of bombardment, the Union-held Fort Sumter
surrenders to Confederates.
1870 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York City.
1916 - The first hybrid, seed corn was purchased for 15-cents a bushel
by Samuel Ramsay.
1919 - British forces killed hundreds of Indian nationalists in the
Amritsar Massacre.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson
Memorial.
1945 - Vienna fell to Soviet troops.
1949 - Philip S. Hench and associates announced that cortizone was an
effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.
1970 - An oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13, preventing a planned moon
landing.
1972 - The first strike in the history of major league baseball ended.
Players had walked off the field 13 days earlier.
1976 - The U.S. Federal Reserve introduced $2 bicentennial notes.
1984 - U.S. President Reagan sent emergency military aid to El Salvador
without congressional approval.
1990 - The Soviet Union accepted responsibility for the World War II
murders of thousands of imprisoned Polish officers in the Katyn Forest.
The Soviets had previously blamed the massacre on the Nazis.
1998 - NationsBank and BankAmerica announced a $62.5 billion merger,
creating the country's first coast-to-coast bank.
1998 - Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, gave natural birth to a
healthy baby lamb.
1999 - Jack Kervorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, MI, to 10 to 25 years
in prison for the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk. Youk's assisted
suicide was videotaped and shown on "60 Minutes" in 1998.
2002 - Twenty-five Hindus were killed and about 30 were wounded when
grenades were thrown by suspected Islamic guerrillas near Jammu-Kashir.
2002 - Venezuela's interim president, Pedro Carmona, resigned a day
after taking office. Thousands of protesters had supported over the
ousting of president Hugo Chavez.

Couple Heads Off Foreclosure by Fighting Back
Elghossain of North Brunswick, N.J., a real estate broker who raised
four children in the bi-level home, pictured left, used his industry
knowledge to fight his case in court without a lawyer after he noticed
that the servicer of the loan that sent him the notice of intent to
foreclose was not the lender that owned his loan. Read More...

Natural bioflavonoids kill hepatitis C virus
A new study just released shows that nature seems to be able to do what
Big Pharma can't -- kill the virus without damaging cells in the body.
Scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) have
discovered that two plant-derived bioflavonoids, catechin and naringenin,
display powerful antiviral activity on tissue culture infected with
hepatitis C.

Predator drone may have killed US troops
The military is investigating what appears to be the first case of
American troops killed by a missile fired from a U.S. drone.
The investigation is looking into the deaths of a Marine and a Navy
medic killed by a Hellfire missile fired from a Predator after they
apparently were mistaken for insurgents in southern Afghanistan last
week, two senior U.S. defense officials said Tuesday. The officials
spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

Applebee's Changes Beverage Policy After Tot Was Served Alcohol
Fifteen-month-old Dominic Dill-Reese began acting strangely shortly
after a few sips from his cup during a family outing at Applebee’s. “He
was a little out there,” said the boy’s mother, Taylor Dill-Reese. ”He
was saying ‘hi and bye’ to the walls and he eventually laid his head
down on the table, and we thought that maybe he was just sleepy.” Turns
out the tot was mistakenly served an alcohol-infused margarita mix.

When Will The Gold Bull Market End?
The fact that the gold investment theme does not yet show any signs of
being in a bubble is one reason to expect that gold's bull market is not
close to an end. There is no guarantee that it will become a bubble, but
under the current monetary system it is 'par for the course' for a
long-term bull market to evolve into an investment bubble before it
ends.

Japan Quake's Economic Impact Worse Than First Thought
The economic damage from Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami last
month is likely to be worse than first thought as power shortages
curtail factory output and disrupt supply chains, the country's
economics minister warned on Tuesday.

Oil Hit by Goldman Warnings; Stocks Fall
Oil prices dropped sharply for a second day on Tuesday, and helped drag
stock prices down around the world, after Goldman Sachs warned that
crude prices had gotten ahead of fundamentals and were set to fall.

Egypt's Mubarak In Hospital After Questioning
Egypt's former president was admitted to hospital on Tuesday after
suffering heart problems during questioning over the killing of
protesters and embezzling of public funds, state television reported.

Yellowstone Plume: 400 Miles Long, Larger Than Thought
Using an analysis of the electrical conductivity of the Yellowstone
volcano, researchers at the University of Utah say the plume is larger
than previously assumed, descending at a 40-degree tilt from Yellowstone
National Park and extending some 400 miles from east to west.

Conservatives' Criticism Of Budget Compromise Growing
With the 2011 budget battle nearly behind them, Republicans are eager to
begin pressing for their 2012 budget blueprint, which would cut spending
by more than $4 trillion over the next decade and revamp Medicare and
Medicaid.

Fukushima Radiation Taints US Milk Supplies At %300 Higher Than EPA
Maximums
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to release new
data showing that various milk and water supply samples from across the
US are testing increasingly high for radioactive elements such as
Iodine-131, Cesium-134, and Cesium-137, all of which are being emitted
from the ongoing Fukushima Daiichia nuclear fallout.

Today In
History - Tuesday - April 12, 2011
1770 - The British Parliament repealed the Townsend Acts.
1782 - The British navy won its only naval engagement against the
colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Saints, off
Dominica.
1811 - The first colonists arrived at Cape Disappointment, Washington.
1864 - Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captured Fort Pillow, in
Tennessee and slaughters the black Union troops there.
1877 - A catcher's mask was used in a baseball game for the first time
by James Alexander Tyng.
1892 - Voters in Lockport, New York, became the first in the U.S. to use
voting machines.
1911 - Pierre Prier completed the first non-stop London-Paris flight in
three hours and 56 minutes.
1916 - American cavalrymen and Mexican bandit troops clashed at Parrel,
Mexico.
1927 - The British Cabinet came out in favor of women voting rights.
1938 - The first U.S. law requiring a medical test for a marriage
license was enacted in New York.
1944 - The U.S. Twentieth Air Force was activated to begin the strategic
bombing of Japan.
1945 - In New York, the organization of the first eye bank, the Eye Bank
for Sight Restoration, was announced.
1945 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA. He
died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S Truman became
president.
1955 - The University of Michigan Polio Vaccine Evaluation Center
announced that the polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was "safe, effective
and potent."
1981 - The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL,
on its first test flight.
1984 - Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger made the first
satellite repair in orbit by returning the Solar Max satellite to space.
1985 - U.S. Senator Jake Garn of Utah became the first senator to fly in
space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral, FL.
1987 - Texaco filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy after it failed to settle a
legal dispute with Pennzoil Co.
1988 - Harvard University won a patent for a genetically altered mouse.
It was the first patent for a life form.
1989 - In the U.S.S.R, ration cards were issued for the first time since
World War II. The ration was prompted by a sugar shortage.
2000 - Israel's High Court ordered the release of eight Lebanese
detainees that had been held for years without a trial.
2002 - It was announced that the South African version of "Sesame
Street" would be introducing a character that was HIV-positive.
2002 - JCPenney Chairman Allen Questrom rang the opening bell to start
the business day at the New York Stock Exchange as part of the company's
centennial celebrations. James
Cash (J.C.) Penney opened his first retail store on April 14, 1902.

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Next Economic Stimulus: Everything 20 Percent Off
Here’s where Seidman and Lewis’ idea comes in. Instead of sending money
to taxpayers in the hopes of sparking spending, the government would
instead set a federal discount that would lower prices on goods and
reimburse retailers the amount of that discount. For instance, if, as
the authors recommend, the government sets a 20 percent discount,
retailers would slash their prices 20 percent — with the expectation
that the government would reimburse retailers every dollar of that
discount for every item it sold.

France bans Muslim full-face veil
Police in France, home to Europe's biggest Muslim population, arrested
two protesters wearing niqab veils on Monday after a ban on full-face
coverings went into effect.

Japan to raise Fukushima crisis level to worst
The Japanese government's nuclear safety agency has decided to raise the
crisis level of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant accident from 5 to 7,
the worst on the international scale. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety
Agency made the decision on Monday. It says the damaged facilities have
been releasing a massive amount of radioactive substances, which are
posing a threat to human health and the environment over a wide area.

'Rock vomit' invades Alaska harbor
Researchers in Alaska are planning a strategy to attack an invasive
species with a heck of a nasty nickname: rock vomit. Known
scientifically as Didemnum vexillum, it's a type of sea squirt
discovered in a harbor near Sitka last June — the first confirmation of
the non-native anywhere in Alaska

Plutonium And Uranium Detected
This has been one of the most difficult blog entries we’ve written. In
order to gather the most thorough evidence to date, we poured through
countless news stories from Japan and the World, as well as official
press releases from TEPCO, NRC documents, Areva status documents, and a
JAIF report in order to determine the truth at Fukushima.

Shocker! On
His Own, Judge Demands Homeschool Student IDs
A Mississippi state judge has issued an order to public school
attendance officers in his judicial district to provide the names of all
homeschoolers there, prompting alarm at the Home School Legal Defense
Association, which fights for the rights of homeschooling worldwide.

April Whiteout Closes Interstate
A spring snowstorm that moved through the Flagstaff region Saturday
dropped about a foot of snow and caused the partial closure of
Interstate 17 for eight hours before moving on at nightfall.

South Under Heavy Assault: IDF Hits Back
Major escalation overnight, southern Israel under heavy fire: The Iron
Dome anti-rocket system intercepted several Grad rockets fired at
Beersheba, southern Israel’s largest city, and at the town of Ofakim
early Saturday.

Why Is The Fed Bailing Out Gaddafi?
Barack Obama recently issued an executive order imposing a wave of
sanctions against Libya, not only freezing Libyan assets, but barring
Americans from having business dealings with Libyan banks.

Many Eco-Friendly Bulbs Contain Toxic Chemicals
Though the notion now borders on political incorrectness among many
environmentalists, the simple incandescent light bulb is still the
cleanest, most non-toxic form of consumer lighting available.

Today In
History - Monday - April 11, 2011
1783 - After receiving a copy of the provisional treaty on March 13, the
U.S. Congress proclaimed a formal end to hostilities with Great Britain.
1814 - Napoleon was forced to abdicate his throne. He was banished to
the island of Elba.
1876 - The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized.
1895 - Anaheim, CA, completed its new electric light system.
1898 - U.S. President William McKinley asked Congress for a declaration
of war with Spain.
1899 - The treaty ending the Spanish-American War was declared in
effect.
1921 - Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax.
1921 - The first live sports event on radio took place this day on KDKA
Radio. The event was a boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny
Dundee.
1941 - Germany bombers blitzed Conventry, England.
1945 - U.S. troops reached the Elbe River in Germany.
1945 - During World War II, American soldiers liberated the Nazi
concentration camp of Buchenwald in Germany.
1951 - U.S. President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur as head of
United Nations forces in Korea.
1968 - U.S. President Johnson signed the 1968 Civil Rights Act.
1970 - Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon that was disrupted
when an explosion crippled the spacecraft. The astronauts did return
safely.
1974 - The Judiciary committee subpoenas U.S. President Richard Nixon to
produce tapes for impeachment inquiry.
1980 - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations
specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors.
1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan returned to the White House from the
hospital after recovering from an assassination attempt on March 30.
1984 - China invaded Vietnam.
1984 - General Secretary Konstantin U. Cherenkov was named president of
the Soviet Union.
1985 - Scientists in Hawaii measured the distance between the earth and
moon within one inch.
1985 - The White House announced that President Reagan would visit the
Nazi cemetery at Bitburg.
1986 - Kellogg's stopped giving tours of its breakfast-food plant. The
reason for the end of the 80-year tradition was said to be that company
secrets were at risk due to spies from other cereal companies.
1991 - U.N. Security Council issued a formal cease-fire with Iraq.
1996 - Seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff was killed with her father and
flight instructor when her plane crashed after takeoff from Cheyenne,
Wyoming. Jessica had hoped to become the youngest person to fly
cross-country.
2001 - China agreed to release 24 crewmembers of a U.S. surveillance
plane. The EP-3E Navy crew had been held since April 1 on Hainon, where
the plane had made an emergency landing after an in-flight collision
with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was missing and presumed
dead.
2007 - Apple announced that the iTunes Store had sold more than two
million movies.

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the dirt...) Read More...

Big protest in Baghdad to demand U.S. leave Iraq
A day after Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested that American
troops could remain here for years, tens of thousands of protesters
allied with Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical anti-American Shiite cleric,
flooded the streets demanding an end to the American military presence.

11 Important Points “Deflationists” Miss (And Why They’re Wrong)
Many have generated ample prose lately in the latest rumble in the
deflationist/inflationist street brawl (a debate still largely ignored
by the mainstream media, which continues to broadcast little besides the
“Carry On, All Is Fine” message). So I won’t add any more to that prose.
But I did want to get across a “hit list” of important points that I
think are ignored or undervalued by deflationists, which together make a
pretty strong case that our present economy will “die by fire”
(inflation), not ice (deflation).

The Bank Runs Of The Early 1930s And FDR’s Ban On Gold
The banking panic of 1932-1933 and collapse of the gold standard was a
government failure, not a “market failure” — a tragic sequence that’s
been documented definitively in such classics as Prelude to Panic (1936)
by Lawrence Sullivan and The Crash and Its Aftermath (1985) by Barry
Wigmore. At root it wasn’t adherence to the gold standard that caused so
much trouble in the 1930s – as is claimed by Paul Krugman, Barry
Eichengreen, Peter Temin and a long line of Keynesians – but a genuine
(and prescient) fear, in markets, that Washington would fail to adhere
to it.

Obama dispatches top aide to Saudi, UAE
US President Barack Obama is sending a foreign policy aide to key Gulf
allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates this week amid concern
over the turmoil sweeping the Middle East.

New home sales are at lowest level in almost 50 years
Home construction in the United States is all but coming to a halt.
Americans are on track to buy fewer new homes than in any year since the
government began keeping data almost a half-century ago. Sales are just
half the pace of 1963 — even though there are 120 million more people in
the U.S.

CENSORED TERROR “DRILL” MOST COSTLY IN HISTORY - “More checkpoints per
square mile than Baghdad”
Busloads of police were brought into New York, some from distant
communities. The national press, generously called the “mainstream
media” reported none of this. Checkpoints were set up around New York, a
city closed down, “tight as a tick.” We were told the “drill” is
designed to test the ability to detect “dirty bomb”materials but
intelligence sources tell us that the idea of a “dirty bomb” is
something out of TV drama and phony White House briefings.

Made in Japan?
Hold onto your chelators folks. And watch out for those Made in Japan
labels on products. Are you worried that your seaweed may be
radioactive? Should you eat that shrimp at the gourmet restaurant? Take
that krill oil supplement? Start bowing to colleagues rather than
shaking hands? Carry a Geiger counter?

Bentonite clay adsorbs radiation
Bentonite, an edible, mineral-rich clay, has been used for centuries to
draw toxins away from intestinal walls while cleansing the colon.
Another use for bentonite clay, which is very timely considering the
recent natural and the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, is
adsorption of radiation. Not only does bentonite clay adsorb radiation
from nuclear fallout, it also adsorbs any kind of radiation.

Today In
History - Friday - April 8, 2011
1789 - The U.S. House of Representatives held its first meeting.
1832 - About 300 American troops of the 6th Infantry left Jefferson
Barracks, St. Louis, to confront the Sauk Indians in the Black Hawk War.
1834 - In New York City, Cornelius Lawrence became the first mayor to be
elected by popular vote in a city election.
1913 - The Seventeenth amendment was ratified, requiring direct election
of senators.
1939 - Italy invaded Albania.
1942 - The Soviets opened a rail link to the besieged city of Leningrad.
1946 - The League of Nations assembled in Geneva for the last time.
1947 - The first illustrated insurance policy was issued by the Allstate
Insurance Company.
1952 - U.S. President Truman seized steel mills to prevent a nationwide
strike.
1953 - The bones of Sitting Bull were moved from North Dakota to South
Dakota.
1962 - Bay of Pigs invaders got thirty years imprisonment in Cuba.
1985 - India filed suit against Union Carbide for the Bhopal disaster.
1986 - Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, CA.
1988 - Former U.S. President Reagan aid Lyn Nofzinger was sentenced to
prison for illegal lobbying for Wedtech Corp.
1990 - In Nepal, King Birendra lifted the 30-year ban on political
parties.
1992 - In Britain, the last issue of "Punch Magazine" was published.
1994 - Smoking was banned in the Pentagon and all U.S. military bases.
1998 - The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. presented new evidence in an
appeal for new federal investigation of the assassination of her
husband.
2000 - 19 U.S. troops were killed when a Marine V22 Osprey crashed
during a training mission in Arizona.
2001 - Microsoft Corp. released Internet Explorer 4.0.
2002 - Ed McMahon filed a $20 million lawsuit against his insurance
company, two insurance adjusters, and several environmental cleanup
contractors. The suit alleged breach of contract, negligence and
intentional infliction of emotional distress concerning a toxic mold
that had spread through McMahon's Beverly Hills home.
2002 - Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African-American woman to win a
Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play "Topdog/Underdog."

White House Confirms Shutdown Would Delay Troop Pay
The Obama administration warned Wednesday that a federal shutdown would
undermine the economic recovery, delay pay to U.S. troops fighting in
three wars, slow the processing of tax returns and limit small business
loans and government-backed mortgages during the peak home buying
season.

3 Chinese Kids Die After Consuming Nitrate-Tainted Milk
At least three children have died in northwest China in a case of
suspected milk poisoning, the official Xinhua news agency reported on
Friday. In the wake of the incident and subsequent findings authorities
have closed down the two dairy farms and ordered further investigations.

Workers return to the fight at crippled nuclear plant
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station returned to the
plant Friday after a strong aftershock forced them to leave a day
earlier, the plant's owner said. The quake forced crews at the plant to
evacuate as it rattled northern Japan late Thursday night. They returned
to the plant about eight and a half hours later, and no fresh damage to
the facility had been reported Friday afternoon, the Tokyo Electric
Power Company said.

'Unusual event' declared at Wash. nuclear plant
A small amount of hydrogen gas ignited in a six-inch flame at a
Washington nuclear power plant Thursday when workers cut into a pipe, a
spokesman said. Columbia Generating Station declared an "unusual event,"
evacuated plant areas near the pipe for about 90 minutes, and notified
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. No one was injured in the one
second-long "puff" of gas that had been trapped in the pipe in the
plant's non-nuclear turbine building, Energy Northwest spokesman Mike
Paoli said.

Vote-counting error rocks Wisconsin court race
A stunning discovery of votes in Wisconsin could give the state's hotly
contested Supreme Court race to the conservative incumbent in an
election largely seen as a referendum on
Republican Gov. Scott Walker's explosive union rights law.

California Assembly guards to carry guns full-time
The recent shooting of an Arizona congresswoman and threats against
several California state lawmakers have prompted officials who guard
state Assembly members to carry handguns full-time. California Assembly
sergeants previously were armed only when threat levels were high or
during large events, Assembly spokeswoman Shannon Murphy said. Beginning
this month, they started carrying .40 caliber Smith & Wesson
semiautomatic handguns whenever on duty.

Boston mayor bans sale of sugary beverages from public buildings
The mayor of Boston has banned the sale of sugary drinks at public
buildings to ease the strain on the state's health system. Boston's Tom
Menino issued the executive order because of the connection between
sugary drinks and both rising obesity rates and dental problems.

Oil above $124, gold at new high
Oil climbed above $124 a barrel on Friday after attacks on Libyan oil
fields reignited worries about supply and inflation fears pushed gold to
a new record high. Gold was up $8.34 at $1,466.37 an ounce.

Today In
History - Thursday - April 7, 2011
1712 - A slave revolt broke out in New York City.
1798 - The territory of Mississippi was organized.
1862 - Union General Ulysses S. Grant defeated Confederates at the
Battle of Shiloh, TN.
1864 - The first camel race in America was held in Sacramento,
California.
1922 - U.S. Secretary of Interior leased Teapot Dome naval oil reserves
in Wyoming.
1927 - The first long-distance TV transmission was sent from Washington,
DC, to New York City. The audience saw an image of Commerce Secretary
Herbert Hoover.
1930 - The first steel columns were set for the Empire State Building.
1933 - Prohibition ended in the United States.
1945 - The Japanese battleship Yamato, the world’s largest battleship,
was sunk during the battle for Okinawa. The fleet was headed for a
suicide mission.
1948 - The United Nations' World Health Organization began operations.
1953 - The Big Four met for the first time in 2 years to seek an end to
their air conflicts.
1953 - IBM unveiled the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine. It
was IBM's first commercially available scientific computer.
1957 - The last of New York City's electric trolleys completed its final
run from Queens to Manhattan.
1966 - The U.S. recovered a hydrogen bomb it had lost off the coast of
Spain.
1967 - Israel reported that they had shot down six Syrian MIGs.
1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting
private possession of obscene material. .
1971 - U.S. President Nixon pledged to withdraw 100,000 more men from
Vietnam by December.
1980 - The U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Iran and imposed
economic sanctions in response to the taking of hostages on November 4,
1979.
1983 - Specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson made the first Space
Shuttle spacewalk.
1983 - The Chinese government canceled all remaining sports and cultural
exchanges with the U.S. for 1983.
1985 - The Soviet Union announced a unilateral freeze on medium-range
nuclear missiles.
1987 - In Oklahoma a 16-month-old baby was killed by a pit bull. On the
same day a 67-year-old man was killed by another pit bull in Dayton, OH.
1988 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to final terms of a Soviet
withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet troops began leaving on May 16,
1988.
1988 - In Fort Smith, AR, 13 white supremacists were acquitted on
charges for plotting to overthrow the U.S. federal government.
1989 - A Soviet submarine carrying nuclear weapons sank in the Norwegian
Sea.
1990 - In the U.S., John Poindexter was found guilty of five counts at
his Iran-Contra trial. The convictions were later reversed on appeal.
1994 - Civil war erupted in Rwanda between the Patriotic Front rebel
group and government soldiers. Hundreds of thousands were slaughtered in
the months that followed.
1998 - Mary Bono, the widow of Sonny Bono, won a special election to
serve out the remainder of her husband's congressional term.
1999 - Yugoslav authorities sealed off Kosovo's main border crossings to
prevent ethnic Albanians from leaving.
2000 - U.S. President Clinton signed the Senior Citizens Freedom to Work
Act of 2000. The bill reversed a Depression-era law and allows senior
citizens to earn money without losing Social Security retirement
benefits.
2002 - The Roman Catholic archdiocese announced that six priests from
the Archdiocese of New York were suspended over allegations of sexual
misconduct.
2009 - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to 25
years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security
forces.

US Dollar Collapse Will Accelerate
“Concludes Bill Gross, "Unless entitlements are substantially reformed,
I am confident that this country will default on its debts, not in
conventional ways, but by picking the pocket of savers via a combination
of less observable, yet historically verifiable policies -- inflation".
. . . . "You must attack entitlements," warns Gross, "and make 'debt' a
four-letter word."

Nearly One Million Hit By Disasters
The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department yesterday said that
since March 23, the inundation had affected 998,867 people in Nakhon Si
Thammarat, Phatthalung, Surat Thani, Trang, Chumphon, Songkhla, Krabi
and Phang Nga.

Glenn Beck To End Daily Fox News Program
His departure was jointly announced in a statement on Wednesday by Fox
and Mr. Beck’s company, Mercury Radio Arts. The statement did not
specify an end date for the show, called “Glenn Beck,” which has been
telecast at 5 p.m. on Fox News since early 2009. Mr. Beck’s contract
with Fox ends in December.

Obama Administration: Shutdown Would Hurt Economy
Warning of economic repercussions, the Obama administration said
Wednesday that a government shutdown would halt the processing of tax
returns and limit small business loans and government-guaranteed
mortgages during peak home buying season.

Oklahoma Sees Driest 4 Month Since Dust Bowl
In most years, the dark clouds over western Oklahoma in the spring would
be bringing rain. This year, they're more likely to be smoke from
wildfires that have burned thousands of acres in the past month as the
state and its farmers struggle with a severe drought.

Washington Post And CBS Receiving Money From Obamacare Slush Fund
Two mainstream news organizations are receiving hundreds of thousands of
taxpayer dollars from Obamacare’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP)
— a $5 billion grant program that’s doling out cash to companies, states
and labor unions in what the Obama administration considers an effort to
pay for health insurance for early retirees.

Oil Hits Fresh Peaks On Middle East, Weak Dollar
Oil prices hit fresh peaks on Wednesday, rising to their highest since
August 2008, buoyed by unrest in the Middle East and North Africa and
dollar weakness ahead of an expected European Central Bank interest rate
rise.

Gold Hits New Record, Brent Oil Above $122
Gold hit a record high on Wednesday while oil and corn were just off
peaks struck this week as commodity prices fuel rising inflation that
governments worldwide are struggling to contain.

Fukushima Reactor 2 Core Has Melted Through Reactor
This will not be news for most objective Zero Hedge readers as we
indicated this is a distinct possibility on several occasions, but some
of those more "skeptical" about reality would be interested to know that
according to Reuters "the core at Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor has
melted through the reactor pressure vessel", Democratic Congressman
Edward Markey told a hearing on the nuclear disaster on Wednesday.

Media Is Wrong On The Dangers Of Radiation
Radiation is now being detected in Russia, imagine what it must be like
for the poor Japanese who live within 500 miles. Japan is not that big
of a place, though it is a land of big people who have made some huge
mistakes.

Today In
History - Wednesday - April 6, 2011
1789 - The first U.S. Congress began regular sessions at the Federal
Hall in New York City.
1830 - Joseph Smith and five others organized the Mormon Church in
Seneca, NY.
1830 - Relations between the Texans and Mexico reached a new low when
Mexico would not allow further emigration into Texas by settlers from
the U.S.
1862 - The American Civil War Battle of Shiloh began in Tennessee.
1865 - At the Battle of Sayler's Creek, a third of Lee's army was cut
off by Union troops pursuing him to Appomattox.
1875 - Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the multiple
telegraph, which sent two signals at the same time.
1896 - The first modern Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece.
1909 - Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson claimed to be the first
men to reach the North Pole.
1916 - Charlie Chaplin, at 26, became the highest-paid film star in the
world when he signed a contract with Mutual Film Corporation for
$675,000 a year.
1917 - The U.S. Congress approved a declaration of war on Germany and
entered World War I on the Allied side.
1924 - Four planes left Seattle on the first successful flight around
the world.
1938 - The United States recognized the German conquest of Austria.
1941 - German forces invaded Greece and Yugoslavia.
1965 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized the use of ground
troops in combat operations in Vietnam.
1967 - In South Vietnam, 1,500 Viet Cong attacked Quangtri and freed 200
prisoners.
1981 - A Yugoslav Communist Party official confirmed reports of intense
ethnic riots in Kosovo.
1983 - The U.S. Veteran's Administration announced it would give free
medical care for conditions traceable to radiation exposure to more than
220,000 veterans who participated in nuclear tests from 1945 to 1962.
1985 - William J. Schroeder became the first artificial heart recipient
to be discharged from the hospital.
1988 - Mathew Henson was awarded honors in Arlington National Cemetery.
Henson had discovered the North Pole with Robert Peary.
1998 - Citicorp and Travelers Group announced that they would be
merging. The new creation was the largest financial-services
conglomerate in the world. The name would become Citigroup.
1998 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 9,000 points for
the first time.
1998 - Federal researchers in the U.S. announced that daily tamoxifen
pills could cut breast cancer risk among high-risk women.
1998 - Pakistan successfully tested medium-range missiles capable of
attacking neighboring India.

Top 10 Foods to Eat Organically
This is a list of the top 10 foods containing the most pesticides,
according to the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit research
group based in Washington, D.C.

Senate Bill 31: POSTPONED AGAIN - Now April 6th! - Folks,
we still have time to make a difference.
* CALL the NC Governor's office at Phone: (919)733-4240
* Call the North Carolina House at (919) 733-7928

10 Healthiest Breakfast Cereals
Although within each brand there is a wide range, Kashi ranks as the
best brand overall in terms of ingredients, according to the report. If
you don't see a cereal you eat in this list (number 1 being the
healthiest), you can check the Rudd Center's
database.

11 Scary Fast Food Breakfasts
Many of these breakfast items meet or exceed the daily sodium and fat
allowances, and provide much more than one-third of your daily caloric
needs.

11 Emergency Food Items That Can Last a Lifetime
Our view is simple: Buy commodities at today's lower prices, and consume
at tomorrow's higher prices. The benefit of holding physical assets like
bulk foods in your possession is that you have no counter-party risk.
Whether the threat we face is inflation, disruptions to our just-in-time
transportation systems, a collapse of our Ponzi economy, or food
shortages, you can sleep comfortably knowing that your investment is
safe and sound, and easily accessible in your kitchen pantry or prep
closet.

Silver Hits 31-Year High As Demand Increases
Silver jumped to its highest since early 1980 on Tuesday on inflation
concerns, a rise in ETF holdings to another record and growing
industrial demand, helping gold defy pressure from a firming dollar
against the euro.

6 Killed As Severe Weather Slams South
A fast-moving storm system packing tornadoes, hail and lightning blew
through the South, uprooting trees, knocking out power to hundreds of
thousands and killing at least seven people.

G20 Considers Global Currency
Chinese criticism of the Federal Reserve for flooding the world with
money may get little traction among Group of 20 finance chiefs meeting
in China as Europe's debt crisis and Japan's disaster take precedence

Oil Could Hit $200-$300 On Saudi Unrest
Oil prices could rocket to $200- $300 a barrel if the world's top crude
exporter Saudi Arabia is hit by serious political unrest, former Saudi
oil minister Sheikh Zaki Yamani told Reuters on Tuesday.

Iran: No Emergency OPEC Meeting
Iran's OPEC governor on Tuesday dismissed the possibility of the
producer bloc holding an emergency meeting, arguing that the surge in
oil prices was linked to factors over which the group had no control.

Cantor Says White House Increasing Odds Of Shutdown
President Barack Obama has increased the odds that the U.S. government
will shut down when funding runs out on Friday by rejecting a Republican
proposal that would have pushed the deadline back by one week, House
Republican Leader Eric Cantor said on Tuesday.

Arizona Day Of Prayer In Jeopardy
A lawsuit says Arizona has no business in prayer but Governor Jan Brewer
says, “This lawsuit is nothing more than an attempt to drive religious
expression from the public square. I will fight it vigorously."

US Pulls Out Warplanes From Libya
The US military on Monday withdrew its fighter jets from the
international air campaign in Libya, officials said, after NATO asked
Washington to keep up bombing raids for another 48 hours.

Today In
History - Tuesday - April 5, 2011
1792 - U.S. President George Washington cast the first presidential
veto. The measure was for apportioning representatives among the states.
1827 - James H. Hackett became the first American actor to appear abroad
as he performed at Covent Garden in London, England.
1843 - Queen Victoria proclaimed Hong Kong to be a British crown colony.
1869 - Daniel Bakeman, the last surviving soldier of the U.S.
Revolutionary War, died at the age of 109.
1887 - Anne Sullivan taught Helen Keller the meaning of the word "water"
as spelled out in the manual alphabet.
1892 - Walter H. Coe patented gold leaf in rolls.
1908 - The Japanese Army reached the Yalu River as the Russians
retreated. 1917 - In San Antonio, Kelly Air Force base began operations.
1923 - Firestone Tire and Rubber Company began the first regular
production of balloon tires.
1930 - Mahatma Ghandi defied British law by making salt in India.
1933 - The first operation to remove a lung was performed at Barnes
Hospital in St. Louis, MO.
1941 - German commandos secured docks along the Danube River in
preparation for Germany’s invasion of the Balkans.
1951 - Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for
committing espionage for the Soviet Union.
1955 - Winston Churchill resigned as British prime minister.
1986 - A discotheque in Berlin was bombed by Libyan terrorists. The U.S.
attacked Libya with warplanes in retaliation on April 15, 1986.
1989 - In Poland, accords were signed between Solidarity and the
government that set free elections for June 1989. The eight-year ban on
Solidarity was also set to be lifted.
1998 - The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan opened becoming the largest
suspension bridge in the world. It links Shikoku and Honshu. The bridge
cost about $3.8 billion.
1999 - Two Libyans suspected of bombing a Pan Am jet in 1988 were handed
over so they could be flown to the Netherlands for trial. 270 people
were killed in the bombing.
2004 - Near Mexico City's international airport, lightning struck the
jet Mexican President Vicente Fox was on.
2009 - North Korea launched the Kwangmyongsong-2 rocket, prompting an
emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

Your 401k May Be To Blame For Rising Gas Prices
So if you’re looking to lay blame for higher gas prices, you might want
to look no further than your own 401k retirement account. Despite the
impact of recent political pressures throughout the Middle East, oil
industry analyst Peter Butell tells WWJ that fund managers dealing in
oil commodities also have a huge impact on gas prices.

Minnesota Measles Outbreak Grows to 15
There is another confirmed case of the measles in Minnesota. The
Minnesota Department of Health is now reporting 15 cases of measles.
Twelve of the cases have been linked to a person who contracted the
measles in Kenya.

Farmers Fight Back
Against Monsanto's Frankenseeds
The issue, in fewer words: Monsanto’s GMO seeds are contaminating non-GMO
crops and Monsanto (NYSE: MON) thinks it’s totally OK to turn around and
sue farmers whose crops are infected with Frankenseed DNA through no
fault of their own. Anyone else see why this is an issue?

America’s Entitlement Mentality is Killing Our Nation
Do you want to know the secret behind building wealth? It is
unbelievably simple. So much so that most people will completely ignore
it. The secret to wealth: Produce something of value that “consumers”
will buy. That’s it! There’s nothing more to it. Sure, there are some
more creative strategies to implement later in the game, but this sums
it all up nicely.

TEPCO To Release Radioactive Water Into Pacific
Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
power station, said Monday that it plans to release water containing
radioactive materials into the sea in a bid to help speed up work to
bring the crippled complex under control.

Looming Food Crisis Showing On Our Shelves
FOOD security will be the greatest challenge to civilisation this
century, with shortages leading to higher prices, political instability
and mass migration, warn scientists, farmers and academics.

Obama Announces Reelection Bid
President Obama opens his reelection campaign on Monday with a familiar
cast of consultants; an economy that's improving, sluggishly; wars that
he is struggling to extract himself from; and an implacable partisan
fight in Congress that might shut down the government by week's end.

More Customers Exposed As Big Data Breach Grows
The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S.
companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed in a massive
and growing data breach after a computer hacker penetrated online
marketer Epsilon.

GOP 2012 Budget To Make $4 Trillion-Plus In Cuts
A Republican plan for the 2012 budget would cut more than $4 trillion
over the next decade, more than even the president's debt commission
proposed, with spending caps as well as changes in the Medicare and
Medicaid health programs, its principal author said Sunday.

A Global Tsunami, Courtesy Of The Fed
The Fed is in a bind. No matter which way it turns, utter failure is a
risk. Putting more money into the system risks no less than the dollar
itself. Stopping quantitative easing (QE) risks plunging the economy and
financial system into another period of turbulent decline. It looks like
they are going to choose the latter.

Today In
History - Monday - April 4, 2011
1812 - The territory of Orleans became the 18th U.S. state and will
become known as Louisiana.
1818 - The U.S. flag was declared to have 13 red and white stripes and
20 stars and that a new star would be added for the each new state.
1841 - U.S. President William Henry Harrison, at the age of 68, became
the first president to die in office. He died of pneumonia.
1848 - Thomas Douglas became the first San Francisco public teacher.
1862 - In the U.S., the Battle of Yorktown began as Union General George
B. McClellan closed in on Richmond, VA.
1902 - British Financier Cecil Rhodes left $10 million in his will that
would provide scholarships for Americans to Oxford University in
England.
1905 - In Kangra, India, an earthquake killed 370,000 people.
1917 - The U.S. Senate voted 90-6 to enter World War I on the Allied
side.
1918 - The Battle of Somme, an offensive by the British against the
German Army ended.
1932 - After five years of research, professor C.G. King, of the
University of Pittsburgh, isolated vitamin C.
1945 - Hungary was liberated from Nazi occupation.
1945 - During World War II, U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp
Ohrdruf in Germany.
1949 - Twelve nations signed a treaty to create The North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO).
1967 - The U.S. lost its 500th plane over Vietnam.
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39.
1969 - Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the first temporary artificial heart.
1971 - Veterans stadium in Philadelphia, PA, was dedicated this day.
1975 - More than 130 people, most of them children, were killed when a
U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashed
just after takeoff from Saigon.
1981 - Henry Cisneros became the first Mexican-American elected mayor of
a major U.S. city, which was San Antonio, TX.
1983 - At Cape Canaveral, the space shuttle Challenger took off on its
first flight. It was the sixth flight overall for the shuttle program.
1984 - U.S. President Reagan proposed an international ban on chemical
weapons.
1987 - The U.S. charged the Soviet Union with wiretapping a U.S.
Embassy.
1988 - Arizona Governor Evan Mecham was voted out of office by the
Arizona Senate. Mecham was found guilty of diverting state funds to his
auto business and of trying to impede an investigation into a death
threat to a grand jury witness.
1991 - Pennsylvanian Senator John Heinz and six others were killed when
a helicopter collided with Heinz's plane over a schoolyard in Merion,
PA.
1999 - The Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres played the first
major league season opener to be held in Mexico. The Rockies beat the
Padres 8-2.

BP to restart deepwater drilling in Gulf
In a deal pitched to U.S. regulators, BP this summer plans to restart
deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico on existing wells in exchange
for tougher safety rules, British media reported Sunday.

Fed Made 73 Loans to Libya-Owned Bank Post-Lehman
Arab Banking Corp., a lender partially owned by the Central Bank of
Libya, borrowed money from the Federal Reserve on 73 separate occasions
in the 18 months following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
News of the Fed loans to Libya emerged as the U.S. central bank released
– after much opposition and idle threats of impending financial doom –
documents that disclosed the names of financial institutions that
borrowed from the Fed’s discount window during the financial crisis.

Copper Becomes the "New Gold"
Reminder to the listeners: Start keeping all pennies 1982 and older.
1982 was the last year of the all copper pennies and they're getting
more scarce. I find one in every ten pennies that I was gotten in
change. It's a very inexpensive way of getting into the copper market.
(Thanks Jimm)

15 Nuclear Reactors On New Madrid Fault Line
Bob Nations, Jr., the Director of Shelby County Office of Preparedness,
says that since the lack of preparation exposed by Hurricane Katrina, he
is "preparing for the catastrophic event" in his six-county
jurisdiction.

Radiation Found In CA Drinking Water - Rainwater At 18, 100% Legal Limit
Despite countless reassurances that no harmful levels of radiation from
the Japan nuclear fallout would hit the US from the EPA, the University
of Berkley in California is now reporting that rainwater in San
Francisco water has now been detected at levels 18,100% above federal
drinking water standards.

Weakening US-Israel Relations?
Whatever one might think about the role Defense Minister Ehud Barak is
playing in the Israeli government – whatever one might think about the
strange bedfellows, Barak and Netanyahu – in The Israel Factor survey
Barak seems like an essential ingredient for those interested in keeping
the strong Israeli-American ties.

Feds Becoming Biggest Part Of State Budgets
This will be the first year that federal aid will become the largest
individual component of state budgets, expanding Washington control over
more of the decisions at that level, according to a report by an
educational and research organization.

House GOP Budget To Propose Major Medicare Change
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said he'll unveil a long-term
budget plan this week calling for more than $4 trillion in spending cuts
that will also overhaul Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlement
programs that drive up the nation's debt.

Workers Struggle To Plug Leak At Japan Nuclear Plant
A first attempt to plug a cracked concrete shaft that is leaking highly
radioactive water into the ocean off Japan failed Saturday, so officials
are now exploring alternatives, spokesmen for Tokyo Electric Power Co.
said.

Stalemate In Libya Increasingly Viewed As Likely Outcome
U.S. officials are becoming increasingly resigned to the possibility of
a protracted stalemate in Libya, with rebels retaining control of the
eastern half of the divided country but lacking the muscle to drive
Moammar Gaddafi from power.

Gulf Spill Company Hands Out Safety Bonuses
Transocean Ltd., the owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that
exploded off the Gulf of Mexico last year, has given its top executives
bonuses for achieving the "best year in safety performance in our
company's history'',
despite the blast that killed 11 people and spilled 200 million gallons
of oil into the ocean.

Foreign Banks Tapped Fed's Secret Lifeline Most At Crisis Peak
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s two-year fight to shield
crisis-squeezed banks from the stigma of revealing their public loans
protected a lender to local governments in Belgium, a Japanese
fishing-cooperative financier and a company part-owned by the Central
Bank of Libya.

Census Worker Won't Take 'No' For Answer
The first few requests were tolerable. A Census Bureau worker would
knock on John and Beverly Scott's door and ask them to fill out an
American Community Survey. The McKinley Park couple would politely
decline.

Want A Passport? Better Find Your Circumcision Records!
If I didn’t already have a passport, I’d be hard-pressed to come up with
many of these details. My parents are deceased. I don’t know if my
mother received pre-natal care, although I do have the name of the
doctor who delivered me (also deceased). Circumcision?

Medical Doctors Speak Out About Why They Avoid Naked Body Scanners At
Ariports
For those still contemplating whether or not the radiation emitted from
airport naked body scanners is serious enough to avoid, you may be
interested to know that many doctors routinely "opt out" and choose the
full-body pat down instead because they recognize the inherent dangers
associated with any level of radiation exposure.

Antipsychotic Drugs Lead To Blood Clots
New research out of the U.K. adds to the growing body of evidence
highlighting the dangers of antipsychotic drugs. Data gathered from tens
of thousands of patient records reveals that popular antipsychosis drugs
like AstraZeneca's Seroquel, Eli Lilly's Zyprexa, Johnson & Johnson's
Risperdal and Bristol-Myers Squibb's Abilify, can cause severe blood
clots in patients.

Common Household Materials Contains A Toxic Brew Of Dangerous Chemicals
A new report from HealthyStuff.org has revealed that many common
household materials are full of dangerous chemicals that cause asthma,
birth defects, learning disabilities, reproductive problems, liver
toxicity, and cancer. According to tests conducted by the non-profit
Ecology Center, vinyl flooring and wallpaper in particular are loaded
with phthalates, organotins, and lead, which are all a serious health
threat.

British Doctors Illegally Prescribe ADHD Drugs To Children As Young As
Four
The overall rise in the number of attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD) drugs being dispensed to children has been a major cause
of concern among some medical groups, particularly as such drugs are now
being prescribed to children under the age of six. In the UK, National
Health Service (NHS) guidelines restrict the prescription of ADHD drugs
to children under age six, but a recent report in the UK Guardian says
that some doctors are unlawfully prescribing the drugs to children as
young as four years old.

Today In
History - Friday - April 1, 20111789 - The U.S. House of Rep. held its first full meeting in New
York City. Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first
House Speaker.
1793 - In Japan, the volcano Unsen erupted killing about 53,000.
1826 - Samuel Mory patented the internal combustion engine.
1853 - Cincinnati became the first U.S. city to pay fire fighters a
regular salary.
1863 - The first wartime conscription law goes into effect in the U.S.
1865 - At the Battle of Five Forks in Petersburg, VA, Gen. Robert E. Lee
began his final offensive.
1867 - Blacks voted in the municipal election in Tuscumbia, AL.
1889 - The first dishwashing machine was marketed (in Chicago).
1918 - England's Royal Flying Corps was replaced by the Royal Air Force.
1924 - Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for high
treason in relation to the "Beer Hall Putsch."
1929 - Louie Marx introduced the Yo-Yo.
1931 - An Earthquake devastated Managua Nicaragua killing 2,000.
1931 - Jackie Mitchell became the first female in professional baseball
when she signed with the Chattanooga Baseball Club.
1933 - Nazi Germany began the persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish
businesses.
1934 - Bonnie & Clyde killed 2 police officers.
1935 - The first radio tube to be made of metal was announced.
1938 - The first commercially successful fluorescent lamps were
introduced.
1938 - The Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, NY.
1945 - U.S. forces invaded Okinawa during World War II. It was the last
campaign of World War II.
1946 - Weight Watchers was formed.
1946 - A tidal wave (tsunami) struck the Hawaiian Islands killing more
than 170 people.
1948 - The Berlin Airlift began.
1953 - The U.S. Congress created the Department of Health Education and
Welfare.
1954 - The U.S. Air Force Academy was formed in Colorado.
1960 - France exploded 2 atom bombs in the Sahara Desert.
1960 - The U.S. launched TIROS-1. It was the first weather satellite.
1970 - The U.S. Army charged Captain Ernest Medina in the My Lai
massacre.
1970 - U.S. President Nixon signed the bill, the Public Health Cigarette
Smoking Act, that banned cigarette advertisements to be effective on
January 1, 1971.
1971 - The United Kingdom lifted all restrictions on gold ownership.
1972 - North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops renewed their offensive in
South Vietnam.
1973 - Japan allowed its citizens to own gold.
1976 - Apple Computer began operations.
1982 - The U.S. transferred the Canal Zone to Panama.
1987 - U.S. President Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've
declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1."
1991 - Iran released British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years.
1991 - The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved.
1998 - A federal judge dismissed the Paula Jones' sexual harassment
lawsuit against U.S. President Clinton saying that the claims fell "far
short" of being worthy of a trial.
2001 - China began holding 24 crewmembers of a U.S. surveillance plane.
The EP-3E U.S. Navy crew had made an emergency landing after an
in-flight collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was
missing and presumed dead. The U.S. crew was released on April 11, 2001.
2001 - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested on
corruption charges after a 26-hour standoff with the police at his
Belgrade villa.
2009 - Albania and Croatia joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO).
2010 - The U.S. Congress cut Medicare reimbursements to physicians by
21%.

Gadhafi's son had a U.S. internship
Someone with knowledge of his program told CNN his 36-day planned
internship began in Houston on January 21, when he was to meet with
officials from AECOM, the global engineering and design company that
sponsored the program. That weekend's options included a 236-mile flight
to Hondo, Texas, for hunting at Lonesome Deer Ranch with a return flight
arriving in Houston in time for dinner at Capital Grille, a high-end
steakhouse.

Debra Oberlin, Former Gainesville, FL President of MADD Arrested for DUI
The former president of the Ganinsville, FL chapter of MADD was arrested
for, fire up the irony music … DUI! That is correct, 48 year old Debra
Oberlin was arrested after police stated that her car she was driving
was swerving. Police gave her two breathalyzer tests where she blew a
.234 and .239. OUCH, the legal alcohol limit in Florida is .08.

'Skunked': Bill Gross On How 'The US Will Likely Default On Its Debt'
In a letter focusing on what has been well known to Zero Hedge readers
for about two years now, Bill Gross' latest investment outlook does the
usual attack of Beltway stupidity (as if Congress is in any way
competent of making math-related decisions - they do what Wall Street -
that's you Bill! - tell them to do, and you know it), emphasizing the
impossible math of total US entitlement liabilities (on a net present
value basis), which Gross estimates at $75 trillion.

Japan Plant Radioactivity 10,000 Times Standard
Officials with the company that operates Japan's tsunami-stricken
nuclear plant say radioactive contamination in groundwater underneath a
reactor has been measured at 10,000 times the government health
standard.

Radiation Traces Found In US Milk
The U.S. government said Wednesday that traces of radiation have been
found in milk in Washington state, but said the amounts are far too low
to trigger any public-health concern.

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